Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap
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(12-21-2016, 11:27 PM)Jester Wrote:
(12-21-2016, 10:36 PM)kandrathe Wrote: So, playing the advocate of the devil here, what is inherently racist about Fascism?

Unlike Communism, Fascism it is not a fundamentally socioeconomic model. It is, at its very base, about a "people" being strong through purity, and using that strength to empower the nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic. Racism fits so conveniently into that worldview that it is almost an inherent part. Conceivably, one could use other kinds of xenophobia than just race (Religion? Nation?), but denigrating the "other" and exalting the "people" will almost inevitably result in racism, or something very like it.

-Jester
Well, I agree Stalinism was a broader, less focused despotic brutality. Ideologically, communism isn't driven by the same nationalistic fervor, then again, fascism (say Italian pre 1938) wasn't racist. In Italy, it began as anti-socialism, anti-communism. It eventually got around to a uomo fascista, as it absorbed the racist anti-semitic ideas of it's ally. Others to consider as variants, are the Ba'athist regimes in the middle east. Also, regarding China, considering Uyghurs, and Tibetans, how can CCCP policy not be seen as ethnic cleansing? In fact, regionally, throughout East Asia, racial purity issues abound.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.

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