Communism, Fascism
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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This is the final summary of my series of letters to the editor dealing with the subject of democide and the differences and similarities between communism and fascism.
Five definitions will be given for the concepts of totalitarian dictatorship, fascism, communism, socialism and capitalism/democracy. Those definitions are based on previous letters to the editor and the 43 out of 120 sources of information available at the Warsaw Community Public Library used for those letters.
These concepts get used somewhat frequently in national elections as labels and slogans in campaign attack ads and speeches, usually without the audience having a basic understanding of their meaning but with the expectation by the speaker of an emotional reaction to them from the audience. I will begin with a definition of totalitarianism or totalitarian dictatorship which does differ from the average military dictatorship commonly found in Third World countries.
Definition of Totalitarian Dictatorship:
Before I begin, no regime can achieve total 100 percent control over its citizens due to active and passive resistance by citizens to such attempts, internal power struggles within the regime and the sheer practicality of trying to achieve 100 percent control. But that still does not mean such attempts by a regime cannot be an overwhelming negative force in the lives of its citizens. Totalitarian dictatorship can be defined as the following:
A type of government controlled by an elected or unelected ruling elite usually in the form of a single political party that -
n Uses industrial scale mass murder of its own citizens and/or foreigners to achieve its goals.
n Enjoys genuine popular support from a large segment of the population.
n Uses the gangster approach in politics and elections against political rivals in order to gain and hold onto power.
n Nationalizes everything and everyone under the collective ownership/control of the state.
n Has a monopoly on access to the basic necessities of everyday living.
n Expects unconditional obedience and service from its subjects for the greater good of the nation and its people.
n Uses violent unrestrained intervention into and micromanagement of all aspects of the lives of its subjects with the goal of radically transforming them and their society.
n Consolidates all executive, legislative, judicial, bureaucratic, police and military power into the hands of the ruling elite which is led by an inner circle of mostly homicidal maniacs with a supreme dictator as its head.
n Institutionalizes terror in the form of a widespread system of prison/labor/extermination camps along with secret police forces, unlimited surveillance and spying by informants in a low-scale war against its own people.
n Abolishes or severely restricts to the point of non-existence basic human freedoms.
The remaining definitions will follow shortly.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]
This is the final summary of my series of letters to the editor dealing with the subject of democide and the differences and similarities between communism and fascism.
Five definitions will be given for the concepts of totalitarian dictatorship, fascism, communism, socialism and capitalism/democracy. Those definitions are based on previous letters to the editor and the 43 out of 120 sources of information available at the Warsaw Community Public Library used for those letters.
These concepts get used somewhat frequently in national elections as labels and slogans in campaign attack ads and speeches, usually without the audience having a basic understanding of their meaning but with the expectation by the speaker of an emotional reaction to them from the audience. I will begin with a definition of totalitarianism or totalitarian dictatorship which does differ from the average military dictatorship commonly found in Third World countries.
Definition of Totalitarian Dictatorship:
Before I begin, no regime can achieve total 100 percent control over its citizens due to active and passive resistance by citizens to such attempts, internal power struggles within the regime and the sheer practicality of trying to achieve 100 percent control. But that still does not mean such attempts by a regime cannot be an overwhelming negative force in the lives of its citizens. Totalitarian dictatorship can be defined as the following:
A type of government controlled by an elected or unelected ruling elite usually in the form of a single political party that -
n Uses industrial scale mass murder of its own citizens and/or foreigners to achieve its goals.
n Enjoys genuine popular support from a large segment of the population.
n Uses the gangster approach in politics and elections against political rivals in order to gain and hold onto power.
n Nationalizes everything and everyone under the collective ownership/control of the state.
n Has a monopoly on access to the basic necessities of everyday living.
n Expects unconditional obedience and service from its subjects for the greater good of the nation and its people.
n Uses violent unrestrained intervention into and micromanagement of all aspects of the lives of its subjects with the goal of radically transforming them and their society.
n Consolidates all executive, legislative, judicial, bureaucratic, police and military power into the hands of the ruling elite which is led by an inner circle of mostly homicidal maniacs with a supreme dictator as its head.
n Institutionalizes terror in the form of a widespread system of prison/labor/extermination camps along with secret police forces, unlimited surveillance and spying by informants in a low-scale war against its own people.
n Abolishes or severely restricts to the point of non-existence basic human freedoms.
The remaining definitions will follow shortly.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]
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