Websters defines fascism as "a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition." In practice, it was a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalted nation and often race above the individual and that stood for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

Websters defines Communism as "a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism." In practice, it is, and was, and ever shall be --- a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts the collective above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

They are birds of a feather, and completely different animals from Western liberal democracy.