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[โ€“] Zerush@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fascism is not a political ideology, it is a system of oppression to the dry, where a person or a chosen elite dictates the rules for the rest of the population, eliminating personal rights and discrepancies, this is what is defined as dictatorship. It is irrelevant which political label is put on. Communism under these conditions is not communism, nor would a real democracy be, in both, by definition sovereignty resides in the population and never in a small elite or a single person. In the western world we have the illusion of living in a democracy, but this is an illusion, since it is not the people who dictate the rules, but the interests of capital for the benefit of a few. This is why a capitalist system always promotes fascism and fights and maligns communism, democracy and human rights..

[โ€“] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would a true democracy differ from the one we're living in now? What is a country like Norway or Germany then if not a democracy?