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liberal and conservative use totalitarianism to equate communist with fascist.What about using reactoionary to equate them with fascist?

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[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 day ago

Anticommunist.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Literally speaking, liberal. But nobody except a communist would get it.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

When referring to both groups, I commonly use "neo-liberal" but similar to what knfrmity said, only communists will know it's derogatory. I'm also warming up to "neo-feudalist".

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago

If your looking for one that would be the most effective for actually convincing regular people probably Imperialist.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago
[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m glad I was never subjected to whatever mental gymnastics are in Arendt’s horseshoe theory polemic.