On Sep 30, 2009, at 9:41 AM, raghu wrote:
Bolshevism and Fascism can be seen as similar in their authoritarianism, but that would require you to ignore essentially everything else about the two. Bolshevists were after a (arguably utopian) vision of egalitarianism, Fascists were social Darwinists who did not even pretend to care about the little guy (the non-master races, I mean).
As Christopher Hitchens once said, back before he turned sour, with Stalin there was the sense that he was betraying something. Not with Hitler.
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