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Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York

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61 points ilamont | 2 comments | 08 Nov 25 15:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.528s | source
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oompydoompy74 ◴[08 Nov 25 17:18 UTC] No.45858268[source]▶
Fascism is in vogue. The United States isn’t far behind.
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marginalia_nu ◴[08 Nov 25 19:29 UTC] No.45859244[source]▶
This is actually textbook communism. Stasi used to run a lot of similar operations, though arguably with more finesse[1] than what the CCP's playbook for dealing with dissidents (at least as far as it is known.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung

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1. dgoldstein0 ◴[08 Nov 25 19:34 UTC] No.45859294[source]▶
I think authoritarian fits better. They may be copying Soviet techniques which is a government that happened to espouse a communist economic philosophy, but in practice this has nothing to do with the economics and everything to do with exerting control. Fascists are just a different type of authoritarian regime.
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2. marginalia_nu ◴[08 Nov 25 20:06 UTC] No.45859534[source]▶
It's also worth nuancing authoritarianism against totalitarianism, which captures states and ideologies that aren't satisfied with absolute political power, but want to control every aspect of its citizens lives.

This certainly encompasses the Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Stalin-era Soviet, Mao-era China, and East Germany among others.

Contemporary China is undeniably authoritarian, and has totalitarian tendencies, but somewhat inconsistently. One can probably present a compelling argument both for and against their totalitarianism.