Czech President Petr Pavel on Thursday signed an amendment to the country’s criminal code that criminalises the promotion of communist ideology, placing it on the same footing as Nazi propaganda.
The revised legislation introduces prison sentences of up to five years for anyone who “establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred.”
The change follows calls from Czech historical institutions, including the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, to correct what they viewed as a legal imbalance.
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Why is hatred implied? It’s one of the easiest means to control people but not necessary.
But even with hatred, the central identity doesn’t have to be built on racial, ethnic, national, religious or class based values. Fans of sport teams are united without those values.
You’re basically arguing “if you remove all the things that define fascism, then fascism isn’t so bad”.
I think you somewhat confuse totalitarianism with fascism. As I said in another comment, while dictatorship is pretty much always part of fascism, the opposite does not necessarily hold true.
I can equally say that if you add bad things to the definition of fascism then it is inevitably bad.
Totalitarianism also has to work for communist dictatorships. Why is fascism not the name for rightwing Totalitarianism that used to use hatred but at least in theory could do without?