Are there any fascists in romantic relationships with communists?

i would hope that it is possible, but now that you mention it i can’t think of any examples.
great question.

If James Carville and Mary Matalin can get make it work I guess a fascist and a communist might have a fighting chance.

Yeah “Fighting” being the key word here.
I used to be in a relationship with a girl who was a communist and believed in the Soviet Union. I’m a capitalist red, white and blue American. We were crazy about each other yet we fought constantly. It was a love-hate relationship. I know that if we spent the rest of our lives with each other we would both be miserable.
So to answer your question: No. Not in my experience

@AstroChuck: You beat me to it, but I was wasting time checking whether carville and Matalin were still married. I am amazed that the marriage has survived. They seem to be happy and flourishing.

His name was Mao Zedong.

Not really the point of the question, I realize, but I’m not sure I would put Fascism and Communism at opposite ends of the political spectrum…

@theabk- You don’t see a corporate-run government and a worker-run government as opposites?

@AstroChuck Totalitarianism is totalitarianism as far as I’m concerned. (I’m talking, of course, about the realities of the two systems, not their stated ideals – I doubt the ideal of worker empowerment was much comfort to the peasants who were killed in the Great Terror.)

@theabk- First off, the Soviet system was a socialist dictatorship under the guise of Marxism. It was miles away from a communist state. No nation has attempted to be a true Marxist government. Communism is just a political philosophy, nothing nefarious. I’m no communist but it’s a far and away better system than fascism.

@AstroChuck – I agree that in theory Communism is a better system than Fascism, but it’s had an awful lot of chances to prove that it can be anything other than a dictatorship in reality, and I don’t see a lot of evidence for that. By this point, in my opinion, anyone who still seriously espouses Communism knows they’re effectively talking about a totalitarian system. But sure, in theory people who support these two philosophies would be on different ends of the spectrum.

I still don’t understand how you equate the two systems. They come from opposite directions.

Hitler and Stalin had a “romantic relationship”. For a while…

You’re kidding!
...No seriously- you’re actually kidding… right?

@mattbrowne : Are you sure that you’re not thinking of Danny Kaye and Sir Laurence Olivier?

@mattbrowne More like a marraige of convenience, and even then, Hitler divorced Stalin a la Operation Barbarossa.

Ok now you guys are intentionally screwing with my head.
Hitler divorced Stalin?!?!?!
Gee… I… I guess I just skipped over that part in history class…

I thought Mussolini was the one married to Stalin.

@AstroChuck No no no. Mussolini was just the jealous bridesmaid who wanted to marry Hitler. Unfortunately, he had no skills and was as useful as a gun with a bent barrel. In the end, instead of sleeping with Hitler, the Italians just screwed him over.

@w2pow2 A marriage of convenience is an agreement between two people who’d rather not have anything to do with each only because circumstances force them to cooperate. If you wanna be boring about it, the name of this agreement was the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed in 1939 which Hitler broke in invading Russia in 1941
Furthermore, the reason why @mattbrowne was using quotation marks around “romantic relationship” was because that’s exactly what it was, a simple marriage of convenience
Dang, history just got boring again.

I was referring to the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

of 1939. Many historians agree that Hitler had already planned the war against the Soviet Union before the pact was even signed. The purpose was to dupe Stalin, so Hitler could focus on Poland and France first. So the “romantic relationship” was the act of a con artist or marriage swindler.