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The topic-starter's problem isn't with the economic form of communism insofar as the oppressive methods that vanguard parties typically use when running the state. Nazis don't primarily focus on state economics. It's rather the cultural, or the political aspect of the nationstate that most nazis salivate over. The whole "the culture created by my ancestors can beat the s**t out of the culture created by your ancestors" line of crap. I don't think Hitler gave much mind to how the economy was managed, so long as he could rule Germany with an iron fist and wage war for the glory of a shitload of dead people..

I say that the Nazi regime was far more destructive than russian communism! Facism is based souly on a dictator's beleifs and this dictator controls the entire country! every aspect of its government. The Nazis aimed to rid the world of all "undesireables" and prettymuch any one that was not of Germanic decent! They aimed to kill off everyone but themselves. That kind of psychotic genocide is only capable of a facist government. Communism is strict but communism is friendly to the worker and the workers rights. Communism, as intended by Carl Marx, was aimed to create a better world for the worker and the lower/middle class. Facism's soul perpous is to gain control of a country and destroy the problems it has (They always have strong religious influences and any one who dose not fit thier beleifs can easily loose their rights, and in the situation with the Nazis even their lives)

communism is to help the worker and structure the government so that it is fair and equal for all people!
Fascism is a dictatorial government aimed to oppress those that are in power do not like! (kind of like what is happening in the US government right now, The Bush Regime is very close to a mild Facism. and this scares me alot.)

I don't think communism is *that* bad, but it just doesn't work for humans. I mean, you get the same salary even if you work harder? Or less? That just doesn't make sense to us, and also the fact that the government is in control of basically everything. Maybe it could work for ants, but not us. It pretty much sets too many limits. Seriously. Look at all the countries that went communist. Almost all of them are doing really bad right now.

i am very anti communism. my mom is from south vietnam and came here after the war and she said it was horrible. they wouldn't let you leave the country so you had to get on a boat really late at night or early in the morning. communism is just everything the same. samesamesame. no individuality, no nothing. you can't worship the way you want. in vietnam now there is no freedom of speech. my dad's friend is under house arrest there because he was speaking out against the government. and in tibet they killed the buddhist monks and nuns, even the kiddies. its all just ******** up.

Disagree. Marx uses the phrase "Dictatorship of the Proletariet" which is indicative of a society still based on class.

It CAN look good on paper, much like Objectivism CAN look good on paper. The analysis of a utopian society based on how its ideologues portray it is extremely subjective.

Also to be considered is that removing economic classes and the absolute abolishment of all hierarchy are two vastly different things. Under Lenin, Russians recieved different rations based on their stations in life. For further information reference the Kronstadt Rebellion and the Ukranian Black Army.

Because those who put it into practice are shameless power-mongers and butchers.