Proposal: New names for the political ideologies

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But what Socialism and Communism both have in commons is that they are two left-wing ideologies. That means we can put them both in the same pile of garbage.

 

[Mrdie]

But what Socialism and Communism both have in commons is that they are two left-wing ideologies. That means we can put them both in the same pile of garbage.

Do you by any chance happen to be a fan of Ante Pavelić?

 

[Graf Koks]

Nice non sequitur you got going there.

 

[Arkhis]

Actually Italy did use some pretty cruel means to suppress revolts in its dominions, like using gas against civilians in Ethiopa civilians and overall retailation on civilians in Greece and Yugoslavia, many villages were burned, all the males slain because they were suspected of supporting the partisans. Italians war criminals never paid because of the political situation after the war but they did something that democratic western countries would have never done. The british and americans who left them unpunished are no better, though.

The British did the same in their colonies, for example in Burma, to supress revolters. Even the Americans did this to defeat partisans in the Vietnam war. It's (or was) a fairly common war tactic to supress partisans. Since partisans live from the support of the locals, making the locals fear you much more than the partisans tends to break the resistance's back (after many years). Same goes for invading: harsh punishments for those that resist can make people defect/surrender much easier.

Even Alexander the Great did this by destroying the cities that opposed him, and sparing those that surrendered. It's warfare against morale, rather than troops.

We call them war crimes now, but these tactics have been used before we could even write about them.

 

[Darth Tracid]

discussing war crimes leads to a very dark road. Don´t.

 

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Not to push the button, but the discussion of war crimes as a difference between political ideologies is a waste of time. All governments, at some point in it's history (other than many Switzerland!), has committed some act during a time of war that today we would say was inhuman, and may have been considered so at the time. American action in the Phillipeans to suppress revolts was just as cruel as British, Japanese, German, whoever. And we are a liberal democracy!

Thus the point is, drop the argument before it gets this page locked.

 

[Darth Tracid]

too late, alas.