[Olog-hai]

So the Bible is wrong when it infers a leopard does not change its spots (Jeremiah 13:23)? Mussolini’s fascism being indistinguishable from communism in practice is that very principle in action.

You responded to post 88. I put a quote from The Principles of Communism in there, where Engels made it plain that their revolutions “would transform existing society gradually”. Lenin instituted his less-socialistic New Economic Policy in response to the evident failure that rapid institution of socialism was driving his empire into. Variations from communism such as fascism and national socialism merely toned down the aspects of “abolition of private property” and abolition of religion due to the societal opposition to both, but the implication of absolute power is the power to transform the extant society according to the will of the dictator.

[Fuzz]

Yeah. You seem to be putting all things bad on one side and labeling it communism.

There are specific definitions of each of these ideologies and there can be some overlap certainly.

The will of the leader, dictator, king, khan, emperor, etc, was the norm for most of our history, but it wouldn’t be considered communism.

As far as the Ethiopian changing his skin color or a leopard changing his spots it refers to character. Megalomaniacs don’t change their desire to be admired or feared and will often use anything to achieve it.