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by KozmoNau7 2954 days ago
There's a big difference between kicking downwards (ala fascism), and kicking upwards (ala socialism).
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"kicking" is an interesting euphemism. Even if it were true that fascism "kicked" downwards and socialism "kicked" upwards, what the egregious socialist and fascist governments of the 20th century did wasn't just kicking. It was often quite literally rape, torture, murder, enslavement, and genocide.
Socialism by definition takes care of everyone equally.

You can tell those regimes didn't actually believe in socialism, by how they oppressed the poor, the weak and those who were different (religiously, sexually and so on).

> Socialism by definition takes care of everyone equally.

I think this is far harder to implement than people assume. We still have many things in life that are non-fungible, the most obvious of which is probably housing location.