Comrades! This cat was troubled for a while by the question of why do we, the Progressives, despise Fascism, even though it is so similar to Communism. True, many of the rank-and-file members of our glorious community are too busy raising awareness to educate themselves on the details of what they are denouncing. But the community organizers ought to know — and yet, Fascism is recognized as an evil regime. This seemed unfair until suddenly I understood...

Fascism is evil — a "cheap imitation" — because it does not go far enough. Indeed, although not a free marKKKet, it still leaves much industry and commerce in the private hands (even if those are the hands of government cronies). This makes it nicely inefficient economically (and thus producing less light- and noise-pollution), but nowhere near as great as Communism.

It also leaves standing too much of these so called "human rights". While Hitler is famous for genocide, the mass murder is not inherent in Fascism. Consider Germany's Fascist allies during WW2: none of Italy, Spain, or Romania were genocidal... Losers... Indeed, Franco's Spain was the safest place in Europe for Jews during the war, and those of them (and of Gypsies), who happened to be on Romania-occupied (southern) parts of the USSR largely survived the war.

On contrast, there is no Communism state in history, where mass murder (genocide and/or other kind) has not taken place -- USSR (for course!), China, North Korea, Cuba, Cambodia...

Of course, a regime that tries to reach for the ideal and fails is even worse, than something like Capitalism, which can be mended into Communism by the simple vote (and some vote-manipulations). Fascism being "Communism-lite", it deserves nothing but scorn from the true Progressive Statists (Prostatists^TM). We shall spit and defecate on its rotting corpse as we march happily by towards the true ideal — the Communism! There is not much left to march for...

Hail Che!

Yes, Red Square, I'm well familiar with this concept of "necessary exception" (I did study the site's dictionary before), but I'm not fully accepting it — perhaps due to this bourgeois concept of "Occam's Razor"... Of all contemporary Fascists, Hitler tried the hardest, but he did not reach the ideal of Communism, and this is something, where the closer you get to the ideal (without reaching it) the more evil you are for trying...

Here's another angle on the comparison between fascism and communism.  Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand are not widely known outside of those who follow the persecuted church, but they were Romanian Christians who were ethnically Jewish.  Richard, who spoke several languages and was familiar with a wide range of philosophers and literature, was imprisoned, isolated, and tortured for a total of 14 years for his work in the underground church in Romania.  Sabina was later sentenced for five years to prison and to a labor camp on the Danube River where she worked in near starvation conditions.  The Wurmbrands suffered during both the Nazi occupation of Romania, and the "liberation" of Romania by Soviet forces.  Sabina, who lost much of her family in the Holocaust, said the Nazi occupation was preparation for communist rule.

Her book, The Pastor's Wife, details the story of her and her husband's conversion, Richard's refusal to submit his faith to the communist government, the Soviet occupation and the communist takeover (amidst promises poo-poohing fears of just such a thing), how they hid Nazi soldiers from the Soviets while simultaneously evangelizing Russian soldiers, and the trial of their faith as they went through their different imprisonments.

When finally ransomed to the west, they founded Christ to the Communist World, which later became today's Voice of the Martyrs.  VOM, which is advertised on Rush's website, has a free newsletter with a good bit of information about the persecution of Christians today, especially in communist and Muslim countries.  Just as a heads up, I warn you that reading this material may make you skeptical of Islam's widely reputed religious tolerance and of communism's claim to provide justice for the downtrodden.