China isn't fascist, it is an capitalist/socialist mixed industrial economy with a ruling socialist party. Russia is literally just another oligarchy with opposed interests to US Oligarchy, they don't have the important base economic markers characteristic of fascism and yes, the article opposes equating fascists and communists.

[–] gowan@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

I never said China is fascist. Im not sure their government could become fascist given the ideological gaps between fascism and whatever we want to call the system China has.

The USA isn't an oligarchy and the Gilens and Page paper people keep referencing never actually makes that claim. The USA is a plutocracy. Our wealthy people rarely gain their wealth as a direct result of government appointments.

Russia is clearly fascist at this point.