OnlyAmbrose wrote:cawck mongler wrote:Fascism, which was first implemented by Mussolini and later adopted by Hitler, is still being used, so Hitler made just as much a difference as those two.
That's laughable. Really, it's funny.
Mao created a superpower.
Tell me, how many facist superpowers do you know of, hmmm?
I know you're trolling me now, but I'll feed you anyways.
China and the USSR were both poised to become superpowers before Mao and Stalin took over, in fact, for most of China's history it had been a superpower. Stalin actually did some things to speed up the USSR's growth (misusing the countries wealth to increase its industry as opposed to feeding its citizens, gulags and taking over Eastern Europe for example). Mao on the other hand screwed up big time, he pretty much enslaved his people in order to start his 'peoples projects', which involved forcing unskilled laborers with minimal equipment to try and manufacture equipment that absolutely required some sort of mechanical knowledge and heavy industry and forcing (mostly) unskilled laborers to build a canal (I forget where) with minimal equipment (the canal was actually completed, but there was some kind of problem and they couldn't use it). Mao was complete shit as a leader and needless to say, his projects turned into complete disasters, the most China could do was salvage whatever resources they spent, as not a single thing manufactured was usable.
Another thing about his regime, is that the local administrators (I don't know what they're called, but mayors and stuff) were given their positions based on how much stuff they were able to manufacture and how much food they were able to grow, they were also given almost impossible to meet quotas and if they failed to meet them they were replaced. In order to 'meet' their quotas, they started reporting that they made more then they actually did, and the Chinese government exported more food, resources and equipment then it should of, this hurt the Chinese economy hard and starved millions (in school they always said the starvation was because no one had any incentives to work, which is utter bullshit, if you didn't work you would've been sent to Chinese style gulags).
Also, you could argue that the US is fascist. A fascist government has strong ties with business and the military, the US, has strong ties with business and the military:). But other then that, the reason you don't see any fascist superpowers, is because fascism has historically only been implemented in countries that were going through hard times (the US is more of a fascism-lite, anyways... but it is going through some hard times, or if it isn't, its about to). Also, there aren't exactly any communist superpowers either, the USSR was a state controlled dictatorship and China's a capitalist dictatorship. If Hitler had won the war, you could expect all of Europe to be fascist, as well as northern Africa and the Middle East, and not just in name either, as fascism was actually workable. A lot of African countries can be classified as fascist btw, and I possibly some South American ones as well, I know back then some of them supported the Nazis, look it up if you want to know specific countries though.