Is Socialism Fascist?

Sam Young
5 min readJun 15, 2021

There’s a popular point of view that proposes the only meaningful difference in politics is between socialism and capitalism. Socialism is whenever the government does stuff, and capitalism is whenever free private individuals do stuff. In this view, terms like “state capitalist” and “libertarian socialist” are meaningless oxymorons. Fascism and Communism are not meaningfully distinct concepts: they basically boil down to nationalist socialism and…

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Sam Young

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.