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Communism often coexists with Fascism.
Communism is not the opposite of fascism.
Thinking capitalism and humanism incompatible is irrelevant when discussing what is an opposite. Communism certainly isn't it.
Fascists often advertise themselves as socialist or communist. This is not the same as them being ideologically socialist or communist.
You’re thinking of countries that call themselves communist, but aren’t actually communist. A truly communist society is stateless and classless, and doesn’t exist today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society
Arguably, states that are trying to achieve a communist society can use fascism to achieve it, but that has never happened and likely never will, because the kind of people who want to operate a fascist society don’t ever have communism as their end goal.
It’s also not ridiculous to think that a communist society will never exist, because there are just too many societal power imbalances to ever truly achieve it.