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		Retric on May 29, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I created Godwin's Law in 1990 as a warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism is not the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism. Part of Fascism's basic tenets is to create a one party state and rule over a large empire. Only way to do that is remove every other party and then start a war.

clevernickname on May 29, 2016 [–]

If "communism" can mean "whatever the hell I want it to mean when it's convenient" then I think we can speak of neo-fascism and other philosophies in the same breath.

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