Some similitarties:
- Opposition to conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy.
- As in Leninism, use of a vanguard party to initiate a revolution.
- Opposition to social division by class and class conflict.
- Opposition to the bourgeoisie.
- Revolution.
Some differences (fascism supports _____ but communism does not):
- Nationalism.
- Paramilitarism.
- Eugenics.
- Economic self-sufficiency.
- Purification through violence and conflict (in terms of war).
- Dictatorship (communism, as a phase of historical development, is not theoretically a dictatorship).
- Private control of social resources (e.g.) factories).