FDR, Churchill , Hitler, and Mussolini also had a lot in common when you get down to it. Same as humans and chimpanzees. It's the differences that actually matter.
I mean they each protected capitalism in their own way:
FDR, being old money who'd just seen MacArthur send in the tanks to raze a camp of rebellious soldiers and knew how these things tended to go, invested in guillotine insurance via the New Deal.
Hitler and Mussolini used the other approach, privatizing/selling off state assets and applying colonial methods they'd perfected in Africa back home to buttress capitalism and protect profits.
Hitler sold off nationalized companies to his buddies, and awarded military contracts to Germany's ultra wealth like Ferdinand Porsche. Literally the first people Hitler killed were his brown shirts, the socialists he utilized to gain power, during the Night of the Long Knives. His entire schtick was that he wanted to kill all the slavs to rid Europe of "Cultural bolshevism" and all leftists thought.
You know literally nothing about history, and actually have your knowledge reversed. You just think "Hitler = bad" and "communism= bad" so "Hitler = communism" I'm sorry to be a dick here, but you are either totally uninformed and are a moron who is just making shit up to feel smart, or you are intentionally spreading wrong information bevauae you want to associate socialism with fascism to push your own nefarious agenda. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your education system failed you.
Fun fact, the word "privatization" first appeared to describe the policies of the Third Reich. It later became a rallying cry of Rageanonomics, Thacherism, and Pinochet. What now a days we often qualify as Neoliberism.
It's more that OP seems unable to fathom anyone to the left of them being both rational and uncool with liberalism. That's why they specifically said "Authouritarian Communists," the SpOoKiEsT LeFtIsTs.
Having a fight over who is or isn't allowed in left spaces instead of having the discussion about leftist policy is what got the left where it is in today's political discussion.
Defining a movement by who's not allowed in it leaves you without any ability to get anywhere legitimately.
Based on your interpretation every group could simply be redefined into illegitimate.
We are for democracy
Oh so you think that monarchy is bad and you want to define yourself as excluding loyal subjects of the king! That will never be legitimate.
Leftist think that democracy should extend into the economic realm as well and what we should do with the means of production should be governed by the people and not just whoever happens to own the capital. One way to word that would be anti-capitalist, but another way would be to word it as economic democracy.
So if you require an inclusive definition for something to be legitimate, there you go. Liberals in America do not seek to do away with capitalism, you would be hard pressed to find any that do. If you support capitalism, then by the fact that capitalism’s private ownership is mutually exclusive with democratic control of the economy, you don’t support a democratic control of the economy.
You can’t have a vegan meat eater, not because of any moral assessment on veganism or meat eating, but because those two terms are mutually exclusive.
Conservatives, fascists, and Auth-Communists just disagree on what color the flag should be, and the name of the party in charge handing out the police to dispatch onto the people.
Good things and bad things are exactly the same. A justice system that enforces the will of the capitalists is exactly as bad as a justice system that enforces the will of the people.
Americans have long moved on from China's atrocities, of even the Ukraine war. The news and internet told them to be outraged about something else now so they're done.
One of my favourite solutions is to just work furiously with shorts and a t-shirt. Constantly moving keeps the bugs away but you still get bitten quite a bit. Then when you're done work, you jump into an ice cold lake which soothes all the bug bites on your skin. Then dry off, put on the jeans, boots, long sleeved shirt and sit around the fire.
They can do better. I'm done taking the blame for the last 3 generation's fuck ups. I've spent my life making up for their shortcomings and all it's gotten me is two roommates, an increased bus fare, and a credit score that means more than my GPA.
If they wanted to play it safe they could just rule that the Constitution is still valid, particularly the part where insurrectionists can't hold office.
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