Talk:W. Cleon Skousen

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[edit] The "fascism is different from communism" line

Taken from Wikipedia article on fascism.

"The Manifesto supported the creation of an eight-hour work day for all workers, a minimum wage, worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong progressive tax on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85% of their profits"

They may have spoken in different terminologies, owing to the fact that people in central and western Europe were so frightened of communism that they would not have tolerated a regime which just called itself communist, but no, there was no discernible difference. Except for the fact that communism killed waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more people. This is not to say that if fascism continued that it wouldn't have done the same. In any case, the idea that authoritarianism of communism and fascism meet at one end of the spectrum, and that the real political division is not left and right, but total anarchy versus total authority, is not an idea which originated with radical john birch Mormons like this guy. It is widely accepted by serious mainstream political scientists as valid (karl popper for instance). Burkean (talk) 04:04, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

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