Liberals are authoritarians, we all pretty much agree on that here but what's the best way to communicate this to a well meaning baby leftist?
Anything worth linking to or specific phrasings you like using? How do you go about justifying that liberals are the "real" authoritarians and not the communists?
I described the difference. If we insist on pretending that those who actually want to kill homeless people are the same as people who would be fine with giving them housing so long as they're out of sight, we'll get nowhere.
Saying that everything right of Stalin is fascism makes the term meaningless. Fascism is something specific and dangerous, and saying that regular old liberalism is the same is not accurate. Liberalism is bad, and kills people, and there are similarities with fascism, but they aren't the same thing. Words mean things.
Stalin also went on to ally with liberal capitalists in WWII.