[Professor Kill]

Why split hairs? They were all complete government control and resistance equals execution.

So a bullet is the same thing as a noose is the same thing as a knife is the same thing as a poison pill? You would defend yourself against each of those in the same way? Each of those brings about your demise in the same way?

I stand by my assertion: lumping together disparate ideologies that have distinct origins and distinct results simply because they are all undesirable is sloppy and intellectually lazy. It ignores significant differences between political systems and reduces our ability to see what conditions produce these ideologies and what actually happens under these systems.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I stand by my assertion: lumping together disparate ideologies that have distinct origins...

Russia - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Germany - National Socialist Workers Pary

Iraq - Ba'ath Socialist Party

Tell me how these are any different...