"This study is appropriate because of the many similarities between fascism and communism, some of which Representative , of Illinois, has recently listed as follows: 1. [W]iping out of all independent trade-unionism... [T]hose... permitted, exist only under the tolerance of the totalitarian state... as its servile adjuncts. 2. [[wikt:elimination#Noun|[E]limination]] of political parties except the ruling... Party. 3. [[wikt:subordination#Noun|[S]ubordination]] of all economic and social life to the strict control of the ruling, single-party bureaucracy. 4. [[Suppression|[S]uppression]] of individual initiative... liquidation of... free enterprise, and a tendency toward government control of supers. 5. [[wikt:abolition#Noun|[A]bolition]] of the right to freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religious worship. 6. [[wikt:diminution#Noun|[R]eduction]] of wages and... living standards. 7. [[Slavery|[S]lave labor]]... and... concentration camps. 8. [[wikt:abolition#Noun|[A]bolition]] of the right to trial by jury, , the right to independent defense counsel, and the innocence of the defendant until proven guilty. 9. [[wikt:glorify#English:_baseless_magnification|[G]lorification]] of a single Leader or or ... all-powerful and subject neither to criticism nor removal through the ballot. 10. [U]tilization of... social demagogy—...[e.g.,] of race against race and class against class—the elimination of all opposition, and the concentration of power... dictatorship. 11. [[wikt:subordination#Noun|[S]ubordination]] of... life and... needs... to the... expanding military machine seeking world conquest. 12. ...Nation-wide espionage to which the entire population is subject. 13. [[wikt:sever#English:_legal_termination|[S]ever]]ance of social, cultural, and economic contact between the people of the totalitarian state and those of other countries, through... censorship, travel restrictions, etc. 14. [[wikt:disregard#Noun|[D]isregard]] for the rights of other nations and... treaties. 15. [M]aintenance and encouragement of s abroad. 16. [[wikt:diminution#Noun|[R]eduction]] of parliamentary bodies to... automatically approving all decisions of the one-party dictatorship and... omnipotent Leader."