Communism Vs Fascism

The definition of communism is " a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people." The definition of fascism is "A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism." Communism and Fascism are both forms of Totalitarianism, which is when the ruler has complete power over everyone. There is a fine line between the differences of Communism and Fascism, however these next three articles prove that there is a line and there is no gray space. People are either one side or the other, there is no in between, the goals and secular leading may be the same but the inner workings differ by a lot, Krupskaya, Mussolini, and Hitler explain the differences in their following articles.

Krupskaya's was a communist and her article What a Communist Ought to be Like describes the standards, mind set, back ground, and just an overall idea of what communists are like. She sum's up her article at the end of the paper which gives the main idea of what the whole article is on " Thus, in order to be a communist: (1) it is necessary to know what is bad about the capitalist system, where social development is heading and how to promote the speediest coming of the communist system; (2) it is necessary to know how to apply one's knowledge to the cause; and (3) it is necessary to be spiritually and physically devoted to interests of the working masses and to communismÐ'..." Krupskaya explains in detail that those are the personal requirements to really and truly consider yourself a communist. She also speaks a lot about how great the workingman's mind is, this is because they can alter and adapt to changes for easily than those of the "capitalistic" class. She finds that it is almost completely necessary to be from the working class to understand and grasp the concepts of communism and then to focus on what really needs to be focused on which she mentions in (1).

Mussolini was the starter of the Italian fascist movement. Mussolini writes a very romanticized version of what fascism really was like in his article The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism. From the definition of fascism I presented in the introduction Mussolini seems much more peaceful, he does mention violence but not to the extent it was used. Mussolini did talk a lot about how men should not indulge themselves "well-being = happiness, which would reduce men to the level of animals, caring for only one thing, to be fat and well-fed, and would thus humanity to purely physical existence." That is the harshest part of this article I have found. Considering the way Fascism traveled and got twisted into the ruling from men like Stalin and