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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
My problem is that Fascism isn't the opposite of Marxism in any real sense, nor does it really reflect the extension of many aspects of the right, anymore than the dissolution of the state reflects an extension of the left.
We can set it there because it's convenient to do so, but if you really start thinking about it and you have any sympathy for the right, problems emerge almost immediately.
At this point, we all just accept that spectrum for theoretical purposes and I know it would be the right answer on a college test, but it doesn't hold up when you start thinking about it, particularly if you are thinking about it economically, unless the idea that underpins your thinking is that Marxism would have these good ideal traits: economic equality and complete freedom from other aspects of the state. What would be the opposite bad traits? We'll call that fascism and put it on the other end. The right deserves the opportunity to put forth its own idealized standard to oppose Marxism, rather than being saddled with a system that by its very definition is totalitarian. Libertarianism makes as much sense as an economic opposite of Marxism.
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I'm glad you changed the last sentence there. I'm neither left nor right in this argument. Fascism is as much an extension of the right as communism is on the left. However, fascism and Communism are not true opposites, because they share totalitarianism. That is what makes Marxism the opposite to fascism.
I'm sure liberals that are compared with Marxists are just as offended as conservatives are when compared with fascists. At least they should be.
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