The Virtuous Appeal of Fascism

This post is part of a series born out of my frustration over the sloppiness of our political discourse, a world where words mean not just what the speaker choses them to mean, but whatever meaning and implied intent is projected into them by the listener/reader.

Sidebar: you may have noticed that when I use the words ‘socialist’ and ‘communist’ as adjectives, describing ideas and policies, I tend to use them almost interchangeably.

The official doctrine (vision) of communism in the Soviet world...