Xi and Stalin are not good models. We can agree on this. But to label them as fascists is to totally misunderstand what the word fascism means.
As to your second point, I really don’t know how to spell it out more plainly. But I’ll try. You said that fascists labelling themselves as communists have been successful in installing fascist regimes. This is patently false, and I used the most famous example of that to make my point.
Xi and Stalin are not good models. We can agree on this. But to label them as fascists is to totally misunderstand what the word fascism means.
Palingenetic ultranationalism under totalitarian regimes that hit most of the 14 points of Umberto Eco’s ur-fascism.
What more do you want? I can quote the Fascist Manifesto if you like too, and demonstrate how it applies to Stalin and Xi, even though the Manifesto itself is only marginally coherent.
As to your second point, I really don’t know how to spell it out more plainly. But I’ll try. You said that fascists labelling themselves as communists have been successful in installing fascist regimes. This is patently false,
You think it’s false because you deny that the Stalinist regime was fascist.
and I used the most famous example of that to make my point.
I still don’t know what point you think you’re making.
Xi and Stalin are not good models. We can agree on this. But to label them as fascists is to totally misunderstand what the word fascism means.
As to your second point, I really don’t know how to spell it out more plainly. But I’ll try. You said that fascists labelling themselves as communists have been successful in installing fascist regimes. This is patently false, and I used the most famous example of that to make my point.
According to Mussolini, fascism is the merger of state and corporations. Sounds like state capitalism to me.
Palingenetic ultranationalism under totalitarian regimes that hit most of the 14 points of Umberto Eco’s ur-fascism.
What more do you want? I can quote the Fascist Manifesto if you like too, and demonstrate how it applies to Stalin and Xi, even though the Manifesto itself is only marginally coherent.
You think it’s false because you deny that the Stalinist regime was fascist.
I still don’t know what point you think you’re making.