Communists seek to own the means of production
Fascists/Socialists seek to control the means of production.
They both seek totalitarian power. There's very little difference between them.
On a related point: here's an interesting visual tidbit that illuminates the common source of communism and fascism. The following are pictures of 1917 rubles in two different denominations. FReepers will note that both of them have swastikas in the middle.
That’s quite amazing, thank you for posting those ruble notes.
Not quite, in communism, the state does own the means of production, but in pure socialism, the people own the means of production in common. It is fascism that allow private ownership of production with heavy regulation by the government in a kind of symbiotic relationship between favored companies and the government. In fascism the people own nothing and have no rights. They are simply the tools with which the government secures its power and the private industry secures its profit (though limited greatly by the state and shared with the government elites).