What is the principle difference between a commifascist and a hardcore marxist? Is it that the former is more hellbent on controlling every aspect of a person’s life, and executing or reeducating dissidents? Is redistributing the wealth so preeminent an issue with marxists that controlling and decimating the population takes second place?
Communists are for wealth distribution to themselves and their institutions such as the main threat to them, their armies. There is no "private sector" to speak of. They may give the people a trickle but the harsh life, corruption and no freedoms are the norm.
The Fascists are more or less the same except that they let the private sector flourish and help them with good regulations that make them grateful to the government like GE here.
The combination of business in bed with big government is disastrous to the people who will get the trickle, the harsh life, mega corruption and certainly, no freedoms.
All this crap came from the idealistic Marxism, which is so idealistic it can't work without an idealistic population and no population is.
I'm no scholar on the subject but this is my understanding. I invite other FReepers to weigh in and correct me.
One thing I won't be corrected on, they're all terrible and full of bloodshed, either to take people over and rule them for long periods or to get rid of any of this systems.
Communists don't give an inch, you have to force them to.