Is it effective to label everything that is reactionary “fascism”?

Like, there are often things we call fascist that are not outright/explicitly fascist—such as social-fascism. Does it make sense to group these concepts with fully-fledged fascism, i.e. neo-Nazism?Another point; all western liberal “democracies” engage in imperialism, which is a significant characteristic of fascism that is present in liberalism, but many other features of fascism are dormant or benign. So is it really helpful to call this fascism? I ask because it seems like calling liberalism fascism exonerates it from its own atrociousness—that is, it evades the point that liberalism is evil in its own right and is merely a regressed form of fascism.Essentially, would it be better to connect liberalism to fascism instead of simply labeling all faults of liberalism as fascism? I don’t disagree that fascistic tendencies exist within liberalism—on the contrary—but I’m wondering if there’s a better way to demonstrate this? via /r/communism https://ift.tt/2OuJpVk