Re: Communist = Nazist
It's not a false equivalence to equate two movements that established totalitarian dictatorships with cruel slave labor camps.
Of course it is. It's a naive, childish generalization that is almost entirely vacant of any useful insight.
It's like claiming the Hundred Years' War and World War II are equivalent, because they were both wars. Or jellyfish and gorillas are equivalent - hey, they're both animals.
Things can share attributes without being equivalent. That's why we say "attributes", plural.
Of course here in the Reg forums, as elsewhere on the Internet, many people feel the need to posture by tossing out strongly-worded sophomoric opinions as evidence of their trenchant reduction of complex phenomena to a soundbite. Well, congratulations; you and LDS can do it too. That only shows that you're not inclined to do any real thinking about the subject.
Nazism is a specific political movement, represented by a political party, its brief (if horrific and violent) time in power, and its remaining followers. Communism is a much broader term, covering a series of economic and political philosophies, an international political movement (or arguably multiple movements), and a series of national governments (which more or less failed to actually implement most of the tenets of their proclaimed ideologies).
Even in a most superficial comparison the equation LDS made is a category error, since Nazism is a species of Fascism, which would be the more appropriate point of comparison.
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