Opinion of Ho Chi Minh

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anti-communist garbage

There's no such thing.

Well, one must be careful throwing around absolutes! I can name a few fairly unsavoury anti-communists that I would label as garbage.

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anti-communist garbage

There's no such thing.

Reagan, and Thatcher were amazing leaders

The point being, as long as Superman thinks that at least one of those people is garbage, his point makes no sense.

They're either great or communists themselves as far as I'm concerned. I mean, it's not like communists have ever fought one another, right?

We don't talk about Trotsky.

So, err, Hitler and Franco were greats?

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Look, the entire schtick of fascism was that it wasn't communism, you mug.

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Look, the entire schtick of fascism was that it wasn't communism, you mug.

"We're not communists, we're just exactly like them in every single way!"

At the time, there was a very real risk many liberal democracies were going to collapse into communism. Fascism was entirely fashioned by the right-wing elites as a replacement for liberal capitalism that had clearly failed to deal with the communist menace in a real way.

There's a reason the backers of, say, Franco were the churches, the landowners, the army and the industrialists. And no, it's not because they were closet commies ...