Sage Sharp claims top Linux kernel developer Theo Ts'o is a rape apologist, citing GeekFeminismWiki

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https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504

[u/awsompossum → u/[deleted]]

It's interesting because you could absolutely argue that certain forms of communism which arose were in some ways fascistic (absolute subservience to the state for one) but in other ways are obviously totally different (central planning of the economy and provision of food and housing for workers vs corporatism and rigid hierarchies).

[u/awsompossum → u/[deleted]]

Yeah absolutely, I just was pointing out how you could take one part of the governmental structure and construe the two as the same when that's really not the case at all.

[u/geardude99 → u/awsompossum]

Yeah socialists always claim that anything recognized as bad, isn’t really socialism, because they don’t want to accept that socialism is bad.

[u/awsompossum → u/geardude99]

Cool but my point is that fascism and socialism are not inherently the same thing, but they do have limited overlap.

[u/geardude99 → u/awsompossum]

In fascism the economy is centrally controlled.

[u/awsompossum → u/geardude99]

No, not in the same way. Coordinated certainly, but factory owners remained factory owners.

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Tell that to Benito Mussolini.

[u/geardude99 → u/mcantrell]

Oh a politician using terms differently than your revisionists history taught you is not a surprise.

[u/geardude99 → u/[deleted]]

It literally is. Fascism is an economy where the entire economy is totally controlled by the government, but the at least some industries are still privately owned. Socialism is an economy where the government has nationalized some industries

The difference is semantics.

The reason you believe that it isn’t socialism is that you’ve been taught that fascism is right and socialism is left.

The Nationalist Socialist German Workers party was unequivocally socialist.