[ketsu]

So the derivation of the word “fasces” is more important than the fact that both socialists and fascists (and “liberals” for that matter) aggressively confiscate private property and redistribute wealth? Yeah, right.

We can only hope that people like you, who bury their heads in the sand and deny the clear fact of Nazi socialism, are in the (small) minority. Such blatant denial of reality is no less foolish than denying the holocaust. If your ignorant views prevail, the stage is truly set for a resurgence of Nazism.

Let me just try one more time to hit you over the head with a clue bat. If this doesn’t do the trick, you are beyond any hope.

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber.

Apples(socialism) and Oranges(fascism) are both fruit(totalitarian ideologies). As fruit both of them have seeds(i.e. they confiscate private property). Does that mean an Apple is an Orange?

Not that I expect you to understand that analogy(any higher order thinking is obviously beyond you). But I'm sure you'll cut and paste more garbage that you don't understand and that will make you feel better.

I do have one question for you, though. Do you really not realize how ignorant you are? Are you really that stupid? Or are you desperately trying to "win" the argument with all this idiocy?

[RussP]

The issue here is not whether fascism is identically equivalent to socialism, which is the issue you seem to be pedantically fixated on. Of course there are subtle differences. But the major aspects are very similar.

Most notably, socialism and fascism are both *leftist* ideologies. Goldberg is correcting the BIG LIE started by Stalin and mindlessly regurgitated ad nauseum by leftists that communism and fascism are “opposites,” and by implication that fascism must therefore be a right-wing ideology. That lie has infected our political discourse and used for decades as a tool to keep conservatives on the defensive, defending themselves from being compared to Nazis.

It is the socialists and leftists that actually have much more in common with Nazism. Until that point is widely understood, conservatism will be at an artificial disadvantage with modern liberalism.

And, yes, the Nazis were obviously socialists. They were fascists too. The two are not mutually exclusive. One can be conservative and protestant at the same time, for example, but that doesn’t mean that all conservatives are protestants or vice versa.

Is that clear now? Good Lord...