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 irrelevan…
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.
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.