Must socialism devolve into fascism in order to have the power to take from the rich?

Question

Think about it.

Answer 1

Your Concept is 100% correct... but you misuse the term fascism... Socialism MUST devolve into tyranny, but not necessiarly fascist tyranny.

Lots of people use fascisim as a synonym for tyranny, but that's not quite right... there was tyranny before fascisim and lots of non-fascist tyrannies existe.

But your concept is spot on. Socialisim requires restrictions on people's liberty, and in the end it MUST become tyranical in order to take from the rich.

Answer 2

NO
socialism and fascism are two different extremes.
Fascism is a right-wing authoritarian system, while socialism is extreme left authoritarian.
Two entirely different things.
But, since communism/socialism rarely has a system of checks and balances to safeguard from centralization of power, it usually ends up falling prey to fascist regimes, which is probably why most people mistake communism/socialism with fascism.

Answer 3

Fascism is quite the opposite to socialism. It has much to do with the question of The Commons. Indeed, fascist governments often denounced their critics as socialists and communists, or other "far left" titles.

The Commons plays a huge role in the political spectrum. That's all the stuff that We The People own collectively -- our military, our parks, highways, air, water, police, fire departments, etc. All those public services.

Fascism is the removing of services and property from The Commons and placing them into private hands (privatization). The functions of government and corporations merge due to the power vacuum. Communism is the direct opposite -- it is the movement of all private property into public hands. Obviously, neither solution is healthy for a modern society.

Thus the modern platform for progressives, social liberalism, is a bit of a balancing act: keeping The Commons protected from monopolistic corporations and their political cronies, and keeping enough individual freedom in order to maintain incentive and maximizing liberty for everyone, not just those who can afford to beat the system. Neither extreme, fascism nor communism, is healthy or desirable.

Answer 4

Fascism is a totalitarian political ideology that has free market economics as one of its defining components .

Socialism is an economic system.

Germany was a fascist government with a capitalist economic system. The National Socialists were socialist in name only.

You are mixing up totalitarianism with Fascism. Soviet Russia was totalitarian with a communist economic system.

Iraq was totalitarian with a socialist economic system.

Answer 5

Of course not. Through democratic rule of law you just raise taxes on the rich, as Warren Buffett suggested last week.

The People have all the tools they need to take our country back from the plutocrats and the corporatocracy. We just have to stop being suckered and start standing up for ourselves.

Answer 6

No.
Socialism, Communism, Liberalism, Fascism, and Nazism, are basically all the same thing.
You don't have freedom with any of them.

Answer 7

No.
Fascism and socialism are completely different. Taking more from the rich benefits society by helping EVERYONE. Fascist governments don't even care about anyone.

Answer 8

socialism doesn't devolve into facism. i want u to have a look at the documentary America: from freedom to facism. that will show u what facism is. and trust me, it doesn't have anything to do with having free healthcare for everyone.....

Answer 9

dude,you need some serious meds!I take it you always want to be poor or steal from the rich.not gonna work,great way to become part of "nature".

Answer 10

Say nyet to Hillary Stalin.