a fascist state fought a war against a competing fascist state. simply being on the side opposing Nazi Germany doesn’t magically make your state a perfect divine utopia
Nobody talked about divine utopias, Engels settled this topic 150 years ago in his “Socialism: scientific and Utopian”. The USSR was scientific socialism, not utopian.
Calling the USSR fascist just proves how little informed you are about its realities. Free education to the highest level, free universal healthcare, guaranteed employment with high working rights and the highest rates of unionization at the time in the world, women’s rights, guaranteed housing for everyone at 3% of the monthly income on average, quality and affordable public transit, heavily subsidized utilities and foodstuffs, lowest rates of economic inequality in the history of the region, respect for different ethnicities and their cultures and languages, strong investments in infrastructure and industrial development… All of this is very accessible information, you could read Albert Szymanski’s “human rights in the Soviet Union” and check the sources there if you don’t believe me.
Well, as I said, you don’t know what fascism is. My country (Spain) unfortunately suffered fascism for close to 40 years through the support of Nazis first, and then the US. Fascism is characterized by a hierarchization of society, praise of militarism, use of religion as a tool of control, heavy presence of private companies (with corrupt links to the government, see Bayern and Mercedes-Benz during Nazism, both of which got state-provided slave camps), increase in inequality, lack of welfare state including education, pensions and healthcare, repression of ethnic minorities and homogenization/centralization of the culture, repression of women’s rights, absence of political parties, extreme far right nationalism, repression of all leftism, and use of imperialism and colonization.
Essentially all of that is the polar opposite of what existed in the eastern block.
a fascist state fought a war against a competing fascist state. simply being on the side opposing Nazi Germany doesn’t magically make your state a perfect divine utopia
Nobody talked about divine utopias, Engels settled this topic 150 years ago in his “Socialism: scientific and Utopian”. The USSR was scientific socialism, not utopian.
Calling the USSR fascist just proves how little informed you are about its realities. Free education to the highest level, free universal healthcare, guaranteed employment with high working rights and the highest rates of unionization at the time in the world, women’s rights, guaranteed housing for everyone at 3% of the monthly income on average, quality and affordable public transit, heavily subsidized utilities and foodstuffs, lowest rates of economic inequality in the history of the region, respect for different ethnicities and their cultures and languages, strong investments in infrastructure and industrial development… All of this is very accessible information, you could read Albert Szymanski’s “human rights in the Soviet Union” and check the sources there if you don’t believe me.
none of that precludes fascism
Literally all of it precludes fascism
just saying it doesn’t make it true
Then elaborate further instead of “actually no”
everything inside the state. nothing outside the state. nothing against the state.
that’s what fascism is. none of what you described precludes fascism
Well, as I said, you don’t know what fascism is. My country (Spain) unfortunately suffered fascism for close to 40 years through the support of Nazis first, and then the US. Fascism is characterized by a hierarchization of society, praise of militarism, use of religion as a tool of control, heavy presence of private companies (with corrupt links to the government, see Bayern and Mercedes-Benz during Nazism, both of which got state-provided slave camps), increase in inequality, lack of welfare state including education, pensions and healthcare, repression of ethnic minorities and homogenization/centralization of the culture, repression of women’s rights, absence of political parties, extreme far right nationalism, repression of all leftism, and use of imperialism and colonization.
Essentially all of that is the polar opposite of what existed in the eastern block.
I got my definition from Mussolini. where is your from?