Gonna doublepost for this, because I'm lazy, and can't be arsed to edit into the post above. If a mod wants to merge them, I'll take the spanking for being a piece of shit.
The reason that most people refer to antifa as fascists isn't just the violent suppression of all other viewpoints, it's because the overwhelming majority of them are communists, and in my mind there's only 2 particular differences between communism and fascism -
- Fascism directly states that ranking party members directly possessing critical industries is acceptable. Communism purports to be "collective ownership of the means of production, without hierarchy", but (without getting into all the details of why) we all know that doesn't happen, and isn't possible.
- Fascism is highly nationalistic, while utopian communism is globalist. Barring Leninist/Stalinst/Maoist/NKDR nationalist bents, which some modern commies handwave as "muh Juche", the original Marxist proposal is for "a global revolution by the working class."
Fascism is simply "the dictatorship of the proletariat", without any LARPing about establishing the utopian bullshit that modern day commies dream about, with no set work hours, lack of money, everyone getting everything they want when they want it without delay, etc. Both systems require centralized market and labor control, centralized operation of all media and information, and violent enforcement of systemic adherence.