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From: don@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Fascism vs. Communism
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Date: Tue, 9-Aug-83 21:56:15 EDT
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Subject: Fascism vs. Communism

If you want to get political, why fool around? Arguments about
Republicans vs. Democrats are pretty tame by any sort of global
political standard.  How do people feel about these two extreme, but
highly influential views? Generally, one sees these systems explained
only by people who are wildly opposed to one or both; therefore, I will
try to be advocative.


FASCISM:  The world contains a few productive people like financiers
and industrialists who really make things move.  Everyone else (the
working class) are just parasites living off the productivity of
superior people.  Eventually, non-productive people use the mechanism
of democracy to force Capitalists to do things that aren't in their own
pure self interest (eg. regulated economy).  Just the productive people
should run things so that cannot happen.  (Note that the last sentence
makes the real difference between a fascist and someone who is just
"pretty rightwing".)

MARXISM:  Hundreds of years ago, craftsmen did their own work and sold
their own goods.  When mass production was invented, many people
worked, but only a few (those who put up initial capital) got to keep
the profits.  A handful of people became rich by employing the labor
power of many people and not paying those people for the real value of
their work.  The Capitalists are unnecessary.  They use tainted money
to make more tainted money.  Workers should use their labor power
solely to improve their own standard of living.  It may be necesary to
use force to unseat the Capitalists from their position of power.