[Steve_Seattle]

I re-watched "Casablanca" the other day and noticed that Rick (Humphrey Bogart) spoke of fighting with the "Loyalists" (communists) during the Spanish Civil War. Of course, it was described as fighting "against the fascists," but that is a very misleading way of describing what Franco stood for; his movement had very little in common with the Nazis other than a shared opposition to Marxian communism.

[Question_Assumptions]

I think the left plays a game to it's advantage by defining all fascists or right win dictators as being just like Nazis. If it weren't for Hitler, could any other fascist really hold a candle to Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Pol Pot for the number of civilians murdered, the suffering they caused, or the horrible shape that they left their countries in? At least the right rejects Nazism. When was the last time someone in the mainstream left had a disparaging thing to say about a communist hell-hole like North Korea?