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@cjd They coopted the "Socialist" name and the "Workers' Party" name for branding reasons, not because of any ideological alignment, not because of any care for the workers. It was corporatism and rule by hierarchy, and they got away with it by scapegoating the Others, not by their actions but by their identity, just like Trumpism is doing today.

The core of the socialist idea is not the totalitarianism the Bolsheviks decided was was necessary to implement it, it is to remove the class hierarchy that fascism and nazism reinforce. The class hierarchy that Trumpism reinforces.

Horseshoe theory is so tiresome.