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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: How Do We Resist The Corrupted....
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They're incomplete facts. We're trying to complete them for you. If you care to check sources, you'll see where the scholarship is.

And, no, I'm not "feeling good about myself". History is what it is. I can accept that without taking it personally. It wouldn't matter to me if fascism had its roots in the left. But it really doesn't, except that Mussolini (and Hitler) used left talking points (downtrodden proletariat, etc), but their policies were very definitely right wing. Il Duce may have been a communist early-on, but they tossed him. Just because he continued to use the talking points doesn't mean he was a socialist.

Stalin (and the USSR) is probably the closest I can come to a left-wing autocracy. Probable the PRC before Nixon, too. I don't recall which leader of the USSR made his "communist compromise with capitalism", but that is when they diverged somewhat from the state owning all means of production. Probably either Stalin or Kruschev. Pretty sure that the PRC was similar, but now is allowing capitalism. Both regimes were autocratic, and oppressive. They have that in common with right-wing regimes like Pinochet, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and others. But their policies were different. Germany, for example, prized its industrialists. They had a command economy, but Messerschmidt was NOT owned by Hitler (or the state). Nor Henkel. Etc. For a long time in the USSR, those sorts of companies were owned by the state.
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