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Originally Posted by Ando
I am sure a lot of people would call what you are referring to as fascism, which is different. I don’t think all the democratic socialist countries in Europe have killed hundreds of millions of people.
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What he seems to be referring to is best described as socialist totalitarianism. Fascism is right-wing totalitarianism.
The biggest problem is that there has been a successful and deliberate campaign to conflate social democracy with socialism. The two are vastly different, as socialism necessitates the collectivization of the means of production. This, in practice, seems to devolve quickly into totalitarianism.
Social democracy has been the most successful form of government in history on an overall per capita outcome basis (looking beyond just financial measures).