#Raskin slams Trump, Biden conduct comparisons during House Judiciary hearing >>>
"This is a memory test, but it's not a memory test for #Biden - it's for the whole country. Do we remember #fascism? Do we remember #nazism, #communism, and #totalitarianism? Have we completely forgotten the sacrifices of our parents and grandparents in prior generations? While we play...all of these silly games, [Trump] entertains #authoritarian hustler #Orbán..."
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The only part of this I disagree with is how he lumps communism in with fascism and totalitarianism. Countries like the Soviet Union, Maoist China, North Korea, etc, did achieve a stateless, classless society where the means of production are shared by society, i.e. communism. Those countries economies were more or less equivalent to state capitalism or some form of statist collectivism, not communism.
@Radical_EgoCom Yes, I thought communism didn't quite belong in that group, but I wanted to reflect the quote accurately. Maybe he's trying to remind people in his audience how aggrieved some people in the 50's were about communism, thereby relating it to other systems that people have also railed against?
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