It is certainly true that the victims are the same either way.
However the attacks were not from the left and from the right, but from the left AND from the left.
Nazism and Communism were/are two sides of the same leftist collectivist coin. One system held that the Fatherland was superior to the individual. The other system held that…
It is certainly true that the victims are the same either way.
However the attacks were not from the left and from the right, but from the left AND from the left.
Nazism and Communism were/are two sides of the same leftist collectivist coin. One system held that the Fatherland was superior to the individual. The other system held that the Party was superior to the individual. Both sought to destroy the individual. The millions of dead bodies that these two system piled up attests to that.
That Hitler hated Communism doesn't make Nazism default to the "Right". I think it is an error when we use the expression that such-and-such is "...to the right of Hitler".
whether Nazism or Stalinism in the 30's was left or right is a matter of semantics; in the end, both were authoritarian. And my fear today is the same regarding the outer fringes of both parties.
It is certainly true that the victims are the same either way.
However the attacks were not from the left and from the right, but from the left AND from the left.
Nazism and Communism were/are two sides of the same leftist collectivist coin. One system held that the Fatherland was superior to the individual. The other system held that the Party was superior to the individual. Both sought to destroy the individual. The millions of dead bodies that these two system piled up attests to that.
That Hitler hated Communism doesn't make Nazism default to the "Right". I think it is an error when we use the expression that such-and-such is "...to the right of Hitler".
Both systems are abominations.
whether Nazism or Stalinism in the 30's was left or right is a matter of semantics; in the end, both were authoritarian. And my fear today is the same regarding the outer fringes of both parties.
Yup.