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Why the Hammer and Sickle Should Be Treated Like the Swastika

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Why do we treat two equally bloody ideologies in such starkly different ways?

If someone were to ask you to think of either extreme of the political spectrum, odds are you would immediately picture a swastika at one end and a hammer and sickle at the other. Regardless of your views on the left-right paradigm or whether or not you subscribe to horseshoe theory, we (rightfully) tend to perceive fascism and communism as the standard ideologies of the extreme.

As such, many of us would also feel rather uneasy seeing those two symbols. Upon seeing a swastika, we are immediately reminded of the evils of the Nazi regime and are accordingly repulsed. To publicly display the logo is even a crime in many European countries. We understand how abhorrent the ideology is and treat it accordingly with disrespect and disgust.

But how do we react to the hammer and sickle? I don’t have to write an article explaining the millions of deaths that occurred at the hands of communist regimes; like the Holocaust, the gulags of the Soviet Union and killing fields of Cambodia are widely known.

Yet journalists in the UK openly and proudly advocate communismStatues of Karl Marx are erected. Even in the US, historically one of the most passionately anti-communist states in history, there is a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the northwestern city of Seattle.

So why exactly do we treat two equally bloody ideologies in such starkly different ways?

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  1. It’s a misconception that Nazism and Communism are different extremes. Both types are leftist, both of them are forms of socialism.
    Nazism, like Fascism, was socialism in an individual nation, still retaining national characteristics, while Communism, as originally promoted, was a form of socialism to be spread within ALL nations, world-wide.
    Remember: the original Communist anthem was “The Internationale.”
    Where the confusion comes in, is that in the anarchy of post-WWI Germany, both ideologies were fighting (literally) for converts to their ideologies.
    Nazism and Fascism were just SLIGHTLY to the RIGHT of the communists.