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What’s the Opposite of Fascism? (www.theissue.io)
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Humanism is the opposite of fascism. And if you genuinely understand that, you can see, too, why fascism took root in America.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

You’re thinking of countries that call themselves communist, but aren’t actually communist. A truly communist society is stateless and classless, and doesn’t exist today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society

Arguably, states that are trying to achieve a communist society can use fascism to achieve it, but that has never happened and likely never will, because the kind of people who want to operate a fascist society don’t ever have communism as their end goal.

It’s also not ridiculous to think that a communist society will never exist, because there are just too many societal power imbalances to ever truly achieve it.