How is communism different from fascism?
What will be an ideal response?
• Communism downplays nationalism and emphasizes commonalities between workers across nations, while fascism stresses the importance of the national community of the country.
• Unlike fascism, communism rejects private property and capitalism.
• Fascism rejects communism's emphasis on economic class identity and class conflict and emphasizes nationalism as the most important form of political identity.
• Communism is associated with utopian, forward-looking extreme left-wing radical politics, while fascism is associated with nostalgic, backward-looking extreme right-wing conservative politics.
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a. Thorough groundwork by a respected study commission. b. Avoiding allowing the process to fall into the trap of partisanship. c. Making sure there was no election coming up so that potential candidates would not be afraid to support the changes. d. Avoiding making unnecessary enemies by steering clear of emotional issues that may not be central to fundamental objectives.
The Left Party in Germany
a. has achieved considerable success in Bundestag elections although never enough to capture the office of the chancellor. b. plays an important role in forming governing coalitions. c. achieves significant success in federal elections but has yet to have much success in regional elections. d. gains most of its support from former East German Länder. e. is a party that merged members of the old East German communist party with left-wing fundis from the Green Party.