The impressive numbers of German communists who joined the Nazi Party<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\nThere were only four single-parties self-described as 'fascist'<\/big><\/p>\n
What few know is that there have been more single parties of dictatorships that have called themselves \"socialist\" than \"fascist\"<\/strong>. Since the emergence of fascism as a political movement in 1921, there have only been four single parties that called themselves fascist<\/strong> (I indicate in parentheses the years in which they were in power):<\/p>\n\n- National Fascist Party<\/strong>(1922-1943). Kingdom of Italy.<\/li>\n
- Republican Fascist Party<\/strong>(1943-1945). Italian Social Republic. Successor of the previous one.<\/li>\n
- Sanmarinense Fascist Party<\/strong>(1922-1944). San Marino.<\/li>\n
- Albanian Fascist Party<\/strong>(1939-1943). Albania, under Italian military occupation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There have been nine single-parties self-described as 'socialist'<\/big><\/p>\n
However, there have been nine single-parties that have called themselves socialist in their official name<\/strong> (I indicate in parentheses the years in which they were in power):<\/p>\n\n- National-Socialist German Workers Party<\/strong> (1933-1945). Germany. It was the official name of the commonly known Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.<\/li>\n
- National-Socialist Movement in the Netherlands<\/strong> (1940-1945). Netherlands, under German occupation.<\/li>\n
- Hellenic Socialist Patriotic Organization<\/strong> (1941-1942). Greece, under German occupation.<\/li>\n
- Unified Socialist Party of Germany<\/strong> (1946-1989). East Germany. It changed its name to the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).<\/li>\n
- Hungarian Socialist Workers Party<\/strong> (1956-1989). Hungary. It changed its name to the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP).<\/li>\n
- Burma Socialist Program Party<\/strong> (1962-1988). It was the sole party of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma.<\/li>\n
- Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party<\/strong> (1969-1991). It was the official name of the single party of the communist dictatorship established by Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal.<\/li>\n
- Yemen Socialist Party<\/strong> (1978-1990). South Yemen. It was the official name of the single party created by that communist dictatorship, which in 1990 was unified with North Yemen.<\/li>\n
- United Socialist Party of Venezuela<\/strong> (2008-present). Venezuela. It is the only party of the socialist dictatorship established by Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and continued today by Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There have been ten self-proclaimed 'socialist' dictatorships<\/big><\/p>\n
Furthermore, no State officially used the term \"fascist\" in its names, but several totalitarian States have used the term \"socialist\" in their official names:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- cRussian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic<\/strong> (1918-1922). Established by Lenin's dictatorship, it became part of the USSR in 1922.<\/li>\n
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics<\/strong> (1922-1991). It was the longest dictatorship of the 20th century and one of the ones that killed the most people, especially under the rule of the genocidal Stalin.<\/li>\n
- Socialist Republic of Chile<\/strong> (1932). Chili. It was a brief dictatorship established by the socialist Carlos Gregorio D\u00e1vila Espinoza on June 4, 1932 and dissolved on September 13 of that same year.<\/li>\n
- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic<\/strong> (1960-1990). Czechoslovakia. This communist dictatorship, established by the Soviets, began to be called the Czechoslovak Republic in 1948.<\/li>\n
- Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma<\/strong> (1962-1988). It was a totalitarian regime established through a coup d'\u00e9tat.<\/li>\n
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia<\/strong> (1963-1992). Yugoslavia It was the official name of the communist dictatorship established by Josip Broz Tito, formerly called the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.<\/li>\n
- Socialist Republic of Romania<\/strong> (1965-1989). Romania. This communist dictatorship called itself the People's Republic of Romania between 1947 and 1965. It changed its name under the brutal dictatorship of Nicolae Ceau\u015fescu.<\/li>\n
- People's Socialist Republic of Albania<\/strong> (1976-1991). Albarnia. It was the name adopted by the former People's Republic of Albania. It was the most secretive communist dictatorship in Europe under the rule of Enver Hoxha.<\/li>\n
- Socialist Republic of Vietnam<\/strong> (1976-present). It is the name adopted by the communist dictatorship of North Vietnam after completing its invasion of South Vietnam. That communist dictatorship still exists today.<\/li>\n
- Great Socialist Popular Libyan Arab Yamahiriya<\/strong> (1977-2011). Libya. It was the official name of the socialist dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi during the aforementioned years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Certainly, there are good reasons for the word \"communist\" to sound as bad as the word \"nazi\"<\/strong>, considering that these two totalitarian movements committed crimes of genocide with many millions of victims. Similarly, the word \"socialist\" should have as negative connotations as the word \"fascist\"<\/strong>, given the number of antidemocratic parties and regimes that have used it to define their ideological position. So, lessons of democracy from the socialists, not one.<\/strong><\/p>\n---<\/p>\n
Image: \"Lebensraum\", caricature of Hitler and Stalin by the Polish Jewish cartoonist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), drawn in London in 1939, after the German-Soviet pact of that year, which led to the invasion of Poland.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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