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I HAVE VIEWED A MANY POSTS THAT MISUSE CERTAIN WORDS LIKE THE WORD FACSISM MANY OF THESE WORDS WERE USED TO MEAN SOME THING I LIKE OR SOMETHING I HATE.BELOW ARE THE MEANING OF SOME OF THESE WORDS.

1.Anarchy: Absence of any form of political authority; a Utopian society made up of individuals who have no government and who enjoy complete freedom.

2.Autocracy: Government by one person having unlimited power; despotism.

3.Capitalism: (From "capital," any form of material wealth) An economic system characterized by freedom of competition in the market, without state control, with increasing concentration of private and corporate ownership of production and distribution means.

4.Communism: A social system characterized by the absence of classes and by common ownership of the means of production and subsistence.

5.Democracy: Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.

6.Fascism: A system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism.

7.A.IMPERIALISM:A GOVERNMENT THAT FIGHTS TO GAIN MORE LANDS.
B.Theocracy: Government by a god regarded as the ruling power or by priests or officials claiming divine sanction.

8.Nazism: National Socialism. The policy of state control of the economy, racist nationalism, and national expansion as personified in Hitler's National Socialism in Germany (1933-45).

9.A.Oligarchy: Government by the few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
B.Plutocracy: Government by the wealthy.

10.A.Socialism: A social system in which the producers possess both political power and the means of producing and distributing goods. In Marxist-Leninist theory, socialism is the material base for communism and the intermediate stage between capitalism and communism.
B.Totalitarianism: (a) Centralized control by an autocratic authority; (b) the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority.

hmmmmm

that definician of fascism sure sounds like today's america. the one i live in.

what i find appauling, more even then ambiguous use of familiarly abused terminology, is the widespread appearant inability, to conceive of possibilities beyond those already familiar.

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"There is nothing new under the sun."

"There is nothing new under the sun."

yah, but there's a hell of a lot bigger universe out there then our own solar system or anything in it.

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I think you have to call it "Utopian Anarchy" or something for the word anarchy to mean anything Utopian by default.

1.Anarchy: Idiotic granny who refuses the global economy as presently defined.

2.Autocracy: 99% of actual governments in the G8.

3.Capitalism: (From "capital," any form of material wealth) An excuse for corporates to pay large sums to some elected con men in the goal to get more money from resources stolen in aliens country (e.g. oil).

4.Communism: A dead utopia. Still working in some hidden Kibbutz or in some planet we did not yet have in sight.

5.Democracy: A nice loom by which people choose the gang which will take their life and money for a short term.

6.Fascism: A system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship in the interest of the citizen who are too stupid to understand the primary goal of their own nature.

7.A.IMPERIALISM:A GOVERNMENT THAT FIGHTS TO GAIN MORE LANDS.
B. Theocracy: Government by a god regarded as the ruling power or by priests or officials claiming divine sanction.

8.Nazism: National Socialism. The policy of state control of the economy, auto-egotist nationalism, and national expansion .

9.A. Oligarchy: Government by the few, especially by a small faction of persons or families or smarter than you people.
B. Plutocracy: Government by the wealthy.

10.A.Socialism: A social system in which the members waste 99% of their time in speeches and 1% in red tapes.

11.Totalitarianism: (a) Centralized control by an autocratic authority; (b) the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority.

I think you have to call it "Utopian Anarchy" or something for the word anarchy to mean anything Utopian by default.

perhapse he was misusing the word "utopian" in the way it commonly is, as a synynym or metaphore for fantasy or improbable.

which, without denying the improbability of its achievement myself, i don't hold heirarchy, reguardless of idiology, economics or belief, to be an intrinsic good either.

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I HAVE VIEWED A MANY POSTS THAT MISUSE CERTAIN WORDS LIKE THE WORD FACSISM MANY OF THESE WORDS WERE USED TO MEAN SOME THING I LIKE OR SOMETHING I HATE. <snip>

It all boils down to our need to label everything, so as to more easily communicate to others what we are trying to say.

Putting thoughts into words is not always easy. Some people have a gift for it whilst others struggle mightily to make any sense to their audience, even if they themselves know exactly what they are trying to put across.

On Internet message boards, this problem is compounded by the fact that text-only communications are a pretty poor way to discuss things. So much of regular (i.e. face-to-face) personal communications are dependent on little nuances of speech, slight inflections on certain words can completely change their perceived meaning and a smile can take the sting out of even the harshest rant. 'Smileys' help somewhat, but they tend to be overused.

Most misuse of words in Internet posts is, in my opinion, down to the fact that English is not the first language of many participants.

With regard to your examples, however, I wholeheartedly agree that mis-labelling of political views is far too common. For this reason I always try to ignore the labels that people assign to the things they are discussing, and instead concentrate on the rest of what it is that they are saying. In this way, I get to apply my own labels and this usually gives me a better chance to understand what they mean, regardless of what it is that they have actually said.

For the record, I try never to use the word 'fascist', largely because I always hear it as 'Fascist!' - said in a Rik Mayall Young-Ones-era shriek - which can only detract from whatever it is that's being discussed. What can I say... I'm a victim of my own cultural past :O

Trouble is no usian wants some words for their own government
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/washington/12combatant.html?hp
Call it fascism or somber hypocritical minded demogratis?

hmmmmm

that definician of fascism sure sounds like today's america. the one i live in.

what i find appauling, more even then ambiguous use of familiarly abused terminology, is the widespread appearant inability, to conceive of possibilities beyond those already familiar.

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Today's America falls under the category corporatism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism).