I was actually thinking about this yesterday. I’m something of a centrist.
Fascists want to exterminate their enemies, and the problem is that they are pretty good at it once they get into power.
Communists want to feed everyone, and the problem is that they’re pretty bad at it once they get into power.
Both have caused plenty of deaths and misery, and both are in that way horrible, but I’d say that it’s always better that your intention are good even if your ideas practically suck – just as long as your intentions don’t include fascist-adjacent harrowing shit like “let’s kill all rich people and generally anyone who disagrees with us”. There’s at least a distinct possibility that at some point something can be improved in the way communism is implemented.
But obviously for fascists, there’s no potential good ever. The only way fascism improves is when it becomes less fascist.
I was actually thinking about this yesterday. I’m something of a centrist.
Fascists want to exterminate their enemies, and the problem is that they are pretty good at it once they get into power.
Communists want to feed everyone, and the problem is that they’re pretty bad at it once they get into power.
Both have caused plenty of deaths and misery, and both are in that way horrible, but I’d say that it’s always better that your intention are good even if your ideas practically suck – just as long as your intentions don’t include fascist-adjacent harrowing shit like “let’s kill all rich people and generally anyone who disagrees with us”. There’s at least a distinct possibility that at some point something can be improved in the way communism is implemented.
But obviously for fascists, there’s no potential good ever. The only way fascism improves is when it becomes less fascist.