Brenda Sens: The difference between communism and facism

Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021 Updated Dec 30, 2021
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To The Daily Sun,

Some time ago I promised myself that I would not write a letter to The Laconia Daily Sun again. With that in mind this will be very short. There is such a shocking and glaring error in Mr. Rich Tjaden's letter published on Dec. 30, that I am left wondering just what is being taught in schools today. He has confused Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a communist. Hitler was a fascist. Here are the definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary: Communism — A social system characterized by the absence of classes, and by common ownership of the means of production and subsistence; Fascism — A philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism. Please learn this. Historically democracies don't last very long. Ours has done quite well but is teetering on the brink. Let's not lose it.

Brenda Sens

Gilmanton

(1) comment

Bill Fitz Jan 2, 2022 12:55pm

There was precious little difference between Stalin and Hitler, both being despotic dictators. They claimed to have political philosophies, but those claims were simply smoke and mirrors attempts to give some measure of legitimacy to their real goals, which was unrestricted power. We still see this today, in the form of Putin, Kim Jong-un, Maduro, and others, including Donald Trump. All profess to have legitimate political goals, but in reality they are only interested in personal power and enrichment.