• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    No? Communism is a movement towards abolishing class society, via collectivizing production and distribution. Fascism is a violent reaction to capitalist decay, employed to retain bourgeois property ownership and break up labor organizing. They are diametric opposites, which is why they have historically bitterly hated each other.

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      but why then has the bird the symbol of a fascist regime, and not, say, the silhouette of Karl?

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        5 hours ago

        Trying to zero in on where your head is at.

        Are you saying that any symbol that features intersecting lines is a fascist symbol or something?

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        The bird has the hammer and sickle, the symbol of the joint partnership of the industrial proletariat and the agrarian peasantry, the symbol of Marxism-Leninism. The hammer and sickle was created in the RSFSR, the first socialist state in history. Using any one person as symbol for the working class movement, and not symbols of the working classes themselves, is akin to liberal Great Man Theory.