Right again Shadow, both Adolf and Joe spent an inordinate amount of time during WWII talking about The Australian Labor Party. One of Australia's leading fascists/Communists of the 1930's 'Pig Iron' Bob Menzies, you remember Bob, founder of the Liberal Party, your party, spent some time in Nazi Germany before the war and returned to Oz with glowing reports, obviously Bob was you know what! Ah... earlier in the thread the rabid right was calling Lee Rhiannon a Trotskyests now she is a Stalinist, when did she change. I don't think Joe and Leon were good buddies, an ice pick seen to that.

Toni

Simple Definition of socialism
: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

So socialism is at the core of both fascism and communism, and the counter position is capitalism.

P.S. communism has killed way more people than fascism. The communists killed way more Russians in their purges prior to 1941 than died in the war.

As for the greens anti semitism, you only have to look at the overreach of the greens BDS program which aims to boycott anyone associated with Israel, which primarily means anyone that is Jewish. As for censorship, the greens also want to make illegal any speech that is offensive, and "offensive" means anything that is offensive to the greens.

Paul,

Keating and the left is calling Rhiannon a Trotskyite, which is essentially saying that she is a comrade that holds heretical ideas. The conservatives see Rhiannon's unwavering support of the Russians through their brutal oppression of Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a strong indicator of her totalitarian leanings

Shadow, obviously history is one of your many weak points. Most of the German war effort was supplied by private industry, hardly fits your definition of Socialism. As for supporting corrupt undemocratic regimes the Liberal Party is guilty of supporting such regimes in South Vietnam, and others like Marcos in the Philippines, and the one time buddy Saddam Hussein, does that show the Liberal Party's totalitarian leanings?

Nothing to say about Ian, Paul?

Paul,

Your knowledge of history is probably pretty good, it's your distortions that spoil the picture.
Private enterprise in Hitler's Germany did what it was told, undoubtedly most industrialists were party members and many took advantage of the Party's offer of POW and/or slave labour.

On Fascism and Communism: some poisons are alkaline and others are acidic and therefore poles apart but they have the same effect.

The Greens are a slow acting poison, somewhat like vellum; insidious.

I hope Paul goes to see a doctor very soon.

He is becoming increasingly more rabid as this thread goes on, & the election approaches.

I hope it is just anxiety, & nothing more serious.