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Terminology #307 By Hank Silverberg Communist, Fascist, Socialist--you have heard those words bandied about in this election cycle much more often than in the past. But it's clear listening to the rhetoric and the public's reaction to it that most people really don't know much about those political ideologies of any of those labels. Anyone who has taken an introductory political science course understands the traditional political spectrum. You can't be a Fascist and a Communist at the same time. Fascism is on the extereme right of the poltical spectrum. Communism is on the extreme left, and Socialism is just to the right of Communism. Yes, you can have authoritarian leaders in all three of these systems, but the ideology is far from the same. So let's take a close look at each one. Fascism was invented in 1921 by Bonito Mussolini. General Francisco Franco in Spain perfected Faschism--a strong-man type of gover