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WarGamer

(12,488 posts)

6. People make too much of the word "Fascist"

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 05:13 PM

Sep 2022

It's not a 20th Century thing.

When you read history, The Greeks and Romans would qualify as Fascists... in the 18th Century, as a reaction to Social Revolutionary movements a number of leaders emerged saying "fascist-like" things...

Even Trotsky said Fascism and Communism were on parallel paths.

I'd prefer if people focused on the word "Authoritarian".

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