Fascism - Communism - take your pick

I've never really known what people meant when they call others fascists. Apparently, a lot of lefties think it means that business and government have merged. That doesn't sound like fascist regimes I've heard about. They were political movements that dominated everything else, including businesses, and turned them to the service of the state, but it explains a lot of the current charges of Bush as a fascist.

I always thought that the technical difference was that Communism was international, trying to export its revolution to other nations, while fascism was modeled on the Roman model, where a single country would rule every other in the world, in other words, a distinction with only academic difference. Both tend toward tyranny and totalitarianism.

But, go to the linked post and read the whole thing. It'll be good for your education and help win arguments.