What’s the Difference between Socialism, Fascism, & Communism? ~ PragerU Fireside Chat (12.09.24)

Do you know how to differentiate communism, socialism, and fascism? Dennis breaks down the real differences between these three versus how the words are incorrectly thrown around.

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TRANSCRIPT:
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my name's Heather I'm from Los Angeles I
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just wanted to get your thoughts and
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explanation on the differences between
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socialism fascism and communism
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especially with this last election cycle
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I feel like we saw those words thrown
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around a lot but I just wanted to know
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like what exactly are the differences
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between those three so the words are
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thrown around that is largely true and
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they've taken on a life of their own
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I'll tell you what they really mean and
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I'll tell you what they mean in usage
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not the same thing so uh let's see
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fascist Socialist Communist okay so
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fascist is what left-wingers use to
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describe everyone who's anti-left this
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is been true by the way I'm not kidding
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about that my field of study in graduate
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school at Colombia of all places was the
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left was communism I studied Russian in
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order to be able to read Soviet
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communist papers I visited communist
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countries repeatedly and uh the first to
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do this was Stalin the monster tens of
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millions of people slaughtered it
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countries enslaved if a human could be a
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monster he was a monster he came to
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power see let's see Lenin died in 24
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1924 if I'm not mistaken so he came to
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Power by about 1928 and he he he battled
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for power in the Soviet Union with Kev
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Zen nov bharin and trky those right so
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there were four Rivals plus Stalin and
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trosky who was the founder of the Red
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Army and Communist Party would let Lenin
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fled the Soviet Union and he fled to
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Mexico where Stalin sent some goons to
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kill him with an ice pick and they did
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kill him with an ice pick Stalin
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introduced the idea that if you oppose
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the left you're a fascist basically if
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you oppose me the leading leftist you're
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a fascist so fascist became the term
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that anyone anti-left was called to the
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American election at this day or even in
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Europe not just leftist the Liber even
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do that and I draw a distinction between
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liberal and left but they they
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frequently will say that the anti-
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leftists are fascists what is a fascist
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fascist is essentially Ultra
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nationalist
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anti-democratic authoritarian regime
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okay so Italy Italy had it they use the
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term F fascism comes from uh from the
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from an Italian word musolini was the
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the obvious example Hitler is it was a
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fascist but Hitler was really a Nazi
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Nazism was a more severe form because
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Nazism introduced what is not
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necessarily part of fascism racism
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Nazism was race-based fascism whereas
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for musolini fascism was just fascism
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musolini to the best of my knowledge was
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not particularly an anti-semite for
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example but but Hitler was of course the
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great Jew hater of all time so fascism
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is the Ultra nationalist uh
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authoritarian government it it
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suppresses uh democracy and it is ultra
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nationalist among among other things but
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those are the major ones so both
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socialist and communist they're on the
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left socialist is one who believes in
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socialism obvious socialism is a bigger
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and bigger government where the
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government takes care of of the social
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order if you will the bigger the
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government the more likely you are to
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head towards socialism but socialism
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does not abolish mom and pop stores you
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could still keep Dennis's pizza pizza
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parlor open under a socialist government
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but generally speaking they will
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nationalize big things the railroads the
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oil industry etc etc communist allows no
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free enterprise whatsoever when I
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visited the Soviet Union there wasn't a
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single private restaurant all you had
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was restauran which is Russian for
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restaurant and that that's all or or uh
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place that sold bread would say CB which
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is bread in Russia not not Vladimir's CB
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joint just cleb because it was it was
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owned by the state and but communist is
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is not just economic communist is a
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suppression of all essentially all
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individuality because because of the
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belief that everybody should end up in
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the same place it's not for equality
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it's for Equity equality is opportunity
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Equity is result the left in America is
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very close to communist in that view
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they want Equity everybody should end up
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in the same equal playing field and if
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they don't it's proof of of racism or
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sexism or what or misogyny or or
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whatever you have so I hope that helps
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you