1.) That is a given; that is why the words 'arguably' and more importantly 'if' were used. Furthermore, they were used in a hypothetical sense, rather than a celebration of being part of the master race or whatever.
And with that statement, the argument that fascism wasn't as bad as communism collapses. Because there's only a handful of races (I'm talking "Caucasian", "African", "Asian", etc.) out there. So wherever fascism rises, it's basically going to promulgate their own race as superior. Thus: enslave and/or kill all others. Now, communism was horrible but under communism, a person of any race would have the same chances of getting rounded up by the state police as a person of another race. With fascism,
most people of the world would be herded into labor camps and/or worked to death.
Even worse if the fascism that develops is promoting a specific ethnicity (as in German, Irish, Korean, etc.) over others. Well, that expands the amount of people that will be targeted by it even more.
Hmm... communism is starting to sound better after all!
2.) Again, a given. Neither cancel the other out.
That's what I'm saying. You were saying that under fascism, so long as you kept your mouth shut, you would have a chance of surviving. I'm saying that that's exactly the same case with communism - keep shut your criticisms of the government and you have a chance at living.
3.) More Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians and other Soviet ruled ethnicities, Cubans, North Koreans, Vietnamese, Ethiopians, Eastern Europeans, Mongolians, Nicaraguans, Afghanis and Albanians were killed and persecuted by their own government than Germans, Austrians, Italians, Portuguese and Spaniards.
Yes, the communist regimes were around a lot longer and had time to accumulate the large sums of victims. Again I say, had the fascist regimes (I'm talking Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and WW2 Japan - I don't know if Japan was considered fascist but it was in that Axis so I'm putting them together) stuck around longer, there would have been many, many more victims. Hell, with the Nazis' plan, the Slavs would have been almost wiped out, the small remainder being turned into an expendable slave labor force. Poland was the first target for this plan, but it would eventually expand to include the rest of occupied Eastern Europe.
Oh, and let's not forget the Rape of Nanking and other Japanese atrocities against the Chinese which have rarely been researched thoroughly.
The nature of the regime did not touch as many people, nor were its malign tendrils felt as noticably by the populace at large.
Oh, right. Not a single person in occupied Europe noticed the Gestapo and informers swarming around. Please. Eastern European children deemed as looking German enough were kidnapped from their homes and their families by the Nazis. After the war, only a handful of those children were found and returned to their own families, and by then they were pretty much Germanized. In Poland itself, random street round-ups were an almost daily norm. In China, people were being experimented on and killed by the Japanese in a manner similar to that in Germany's concentration camps.
But I'm sure noone noticed these actions by the regimes ruling their countries.
Fascists still do exist but pose no threat whatsoever in terms of taking control of a country or government. Communists on the other hand, hold a significant portion of the world still in thrall.
Don't underestimate the fascist parties that exist again. A fascist threat is still real - after all, they offer power for the country and greatness and exalt their country as the best. They exploit patriotism, turning it into blind nationalism. Fascism is especially a danger in the countries that
were under the Soviet bloc. The democracies in those countries are still feeling growing pains, and there's not only corruption in the governments but also there's economic issues, especially with the countries trying to adjust to the EU regulations. If the democratic government is ineffective in dealing with the problems, there will be a lot of disillusionment. And the alternative to democracy is a dictatorship. A leftist (communist) dictatorship is infeasible there because people there detest communists after 50 years of Soviet domination. So in the way of offering a strong, willful dictatorship as alternative to an inefficient democracy, fascist parties have no competition.
5.) Communism was and is a most terrible and corroding stain on the earth, as it was a significant factor in motivating the rise of fascism.
Fascism may have risen a few years after communism did, but that hardly means it was any more or less vulgar than communism.
