Communism And Fascism Similarities

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In the past, people from countries like Russia, and Cuba have been well known communist countries, while people from Italy and Germany, have had their fair share of Fascism. It is not surprising that many people find the two concepts confusing, despite them having different views in politics both fascism and communism have a few things in common (Communism vs. Fascism). Some basic similarities is that both these political parties originated in Europe. “Both had dictatorial tendencies and tend to advocate a rule by one party” (Communism vs. Fascism). These parties took full control of most parts of their government, even taking total control of the press. Furthermore, they both morphed into really repressive forms of government which finally …show more content…

Communism aims to pursue international domination which is what Stalin tried to do by with the Soviet Union. However, fascist leaders have interest of those only having to do with their nation. A communist society have no social classes, and this is why private ownership of property, and land are frowned upon. On the contrary, fascism is very much class based, which was demonstrated by Hitler and his view on race superiority. These goals might seem different, but the methods used to achieve these goals are really similar. According to Fascism origins and ideology, the fascist were more effective at propaganda than at actually ruling, the fascist government quite often operated as more of a Mafia-like patronage structure than as an efficiently running state. This despite fascist claims of establishing a modern, streamlined, disciplined system. Often contradictory, fascist thought claimed to reject liberalism and communism and to embrace authority, hierarchy and perpetual action and mobilization. The fascist slogan of “Credire! Obbedire! Combattire!” “Believe! Obey! Fight!” Embodied this sense of militarization as did the Fascist Decalogue, which every school child had to memorize (Fascism: origins and ideology). In economics, fascism promoted the idea of national self-sufficiency and large labor unions which were merged with corporate management, the corporate …show more content…

They do not reject liberalism, democracy, or socialism. We might think fascist would want to turn the clock back to the time of ascribed status, but on the contrary fascist hate religion. Few have respect to certain monarchs and aristocrat