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Thank you for addressing this famously slippery question and for your work in general on authoritarianism.

I see all authoritarians as fascists, because they require everyone to think and act the same; and eliminate those who refuse. So Stalin and all totalitarians were fascists. Ostensible differences in economic structures are irrelevant... in the end it's always *a gang with a gulag* .

Diametrically opposed to these fascists are the liberals. Another simplification but useful in keeping the big picture straight for me.

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