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Let´s list some common elements and differences.
Similarities:
- Totalitarian ideology and a political system that excludes any other ideology or model of social and political organization
- One-party system with a top, absolute leader , truly a dictator
- Mass mobilization around the party and the great leader
- Personality cult of the great leader
- Both justify the use of violence for achieving their purposes
Differences
- Fascim is extremely conservative, an expression of the extreme right. Communism is radical leftist expression
- Fascim puts the nation first. Communism can even destroy the nation, it puts the proletariat first (the dictatorship of the proletariat) in theory, though it´s actually a bureaucratic party elite that holds real power
- Fascim speaks of racial and national superiority and domination; communism intends to replace social classes with an egalitarian society.
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