As someone who thinks of himself as liberal and is sympathetic to leftist ideals, because communists suck.
It's hard to define fascism, what countries were fascist besides Fascist Germany,Italy, Spain? Other then Fascist/Nazi Germany (was Indonesia fascist when the military killed near a million "communists"?) I'm not sure any lived up to the horrors that occurred w/ several communist countries including USSR(Million+ killed in mass repression, tens of millions died in famine partially caused by malice), China (same maybe a few more deaths), Cambodia(2 million/20% dead), North Korea(decades of virtual slavery and repression), etc. Most of the communist countries mostly killed their own citizens and to some extent said it as being for their own good and to some extent believed that.
"Communist" states that may or may not be near "communism" as a pure ideology have a very bad track record.
Although I'm not sure how apparent this was in the 30s.
> Although I'm not sure how apparent this was in the 30s.
I think in the 30s one could have said, 'fascists have killed their thousands, but communists have killed their millions' (the Holodomor was '32-'33). Even Western fellow-travellers would had to have admitted hundreds of thousands of Russian bishops, priests, monks & nuns — 85,000 in 1937[1], during the Spanish Civil War.
