• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m neither lol. Both are crappy authoritarian ideologies with a fondness for state violence.

    I’m more somewhere between an anti-capitalist pacifist social democrat and an anarchist, depending on the issue.

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      1 year ago

      Both are crappy authoritarian ideologies with a fondness for state violence

      … so like a horseshoe shape where the more extreme ends seem to trend back to the same place?

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        1 year ago

        No. There being similarities doesn’t mean that they’re identical. For example, fascism is ultra-capitalist and against social safety nets, whereas communism is anti-capitalist and very much in favor of social safety nets.

        To think them identical requires a child-level understanding of political ideologies, something that’s unfortunately very common amongst liberals and centrists.