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Mackorov posted...

* both have dictatorships
* both have censorship of media and propaganda
* both have nationalism regardless
* both have low human rights, discrimination and history of government abuse
way I see it, both are literally the same. I guess you could only say facists are more intent on expanionism (invading other countries) whereas communists tend to isolate themselves

All the things you described are the GOALS of facism. The goal of a marxist-lenninist would be a classless, stateless, moneyless society. At this point in time that society hasn't ever been achieved. The states you are thinking about chose, if you believe it was in good faith, to structure their government the way they did as a tactical attempt to theoretically achieve their ultimate goal in the way they thought best to achieve it, but none claim to have achieved communism yet. China allegedly has a timeline to transition to socialism by mid century. Only time will tell if their methods were successful and if not, that doesn't discredit communism, but merely their method of achieving it.