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What are the differences between fascism and communism?

Answer:
Some similitarties:
  1. Opposition to conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy.
  2. As in Leninism, use of a vanguard party to initiate a revolution.
  3. Opposition to social division by class and class conflict.
  4. Opposition to the bourgeoisie.
  5. Revolution.


Some differences (fascism supports _____ but communism does not):
  1. Nationalism.
  2. Paramilitarism.
  3. Eugenics.
  4. Economic self-sufficiency.
  5. Purification through violence and conflict (in terms of war).
  6. Dictatorship (communism, as a phase of historical development, is not theoretically a dictatorship).
  7. Private control of social resources (e.g.) factories).
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