Socialist, Marxist, Communist, Fascist, all mean the same thing with only minor differences.
Just Marketed Differently and to Different People.
Yup....all are statists and collectivists.
The one thing they have in common is control.
They are the Control Freaks!
As well as globalists and Internationalists, which is what our past 4 presidents have called themselves
All the movements you describe are premised upon utilitarian concepts, which assume that the individual is always secondary to the collective. They are also, basically humanist--although the "parlor pink" variety may not want to claim their veritable "soul brothers."
It is however a mistake to confuse the National Socialism of Germany with Italian Fascism. While Mussolini started out as a Socialist, he moved somewhat towards the Right when he launched his "Black Shirts,'' so while a bully & totalitarian, he never embraced the monolithic socialism of Hitler & Goebbels. Thus, after the fall of Sicily to the allies, the King was able to fire Mussolini.
The point is important, because Obama, while assuming Mussolini's facial angle, has much more closely embraced the Hitlerian formula for the pursuit of power. In Italy, the businesses had more of a say in the overall control than in Germany, where they were reduced to puppets for the centrally decreed value system.
It went under-noticed, but didn't Michelle Obama call fro a system somewhat similar to the Nazi, where children would report their parents for incorrect thoughts, in a recent commencement address? Obama's demonizing 1% of the population, as his chosen scape-goat, is the same formula as Hitler applied when he took up Karl Marx's idea of using the German Jews as a scape goat. And see, generally, Leftwing Chickens Coming Home.
It is not just the increasing striving for thought control, that tips off what is devolving upon us; but consider the way Obama has marketed his wares--for an obvious example, adjourning the 2008 Convention from a Convention Hall to a large stadium, for the leader's acceptance speech. (For those who do not recognize the benefits to one seeking a totalitarian approach to government, being part of a huge crowd, chanting in unison, creates the impression of invincibility--the Nazi answer to the marching automatons in a Red Square May Day parade.)
William Flax
I agree.
The minor differences are indeed minor when compared to the major difference between the oppressive methods of government and Americanism.
Ask people like my parents who escaped the socialist/communist utopia or it's expansion what they call obamaramadingdong, they have the reality of experience in identifying him.