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You say you can't see how and then explain exactly how.
They definitely do not mean the same thing that's the same thing that happened to Nazis. They just were the biggest example of fascists on the world stage. A concept older than the Nazis. When Nazi is really more an ideology of hate wearing a façade.
The same party that is used to chastise 'socialist' beliefs when it wasn't truly socialist. Words evolve and change, it's why spreading a message is better than spreading a term. Whether or not you are right mattrrs very little when the person listening understands something different.
Help your neighbor and let them not go hungry - least we can do is spread our beliefs through our acts. I wish to raise the bottom line, and this will come at the detriment of my time, labor, and whatnot. This is why those with means would rather not sacrifice their comfort. Even when it's just money.
I consider facism to be more like something that corrupts and worms its way into everything. As you said, its older thing than the nazis. Its like somekind of ideological disease.
Oh absolutely, it's power which allows laziness and comforts. In communism those in office are not the labor force ans can control the flow of money. Comfort.
Same issues arise with capitalism since money allows these sames comfort and once you're rich enough they won't let you be poor again.
Its also something that has to be dealt with or it will destroy humanity eventually, or turn it into something so horrible that destruction might be preferred. Any system we come up with will get corrupted by it if its allowed to exist.
Though its so damn annoyingly hard to eradicate since by doing so you kind of become it yourself, at least if you try to do it the easy way. But to get rid of it in better way relies on people being able / wanting to change or at least not opposing the change in such way it causes more problems.
The difficult truth, compassion and empathy is the only way to win. In turn needing something from everyone. Not everyone understands and in doing so they take with them others.