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Agreed to a large degree, they're so similar and us regular folks were screwed either way :/
When Russia painted Stalin on the buses in Moscow years ago now, I got kicked off RT News for posting: In China they killed their citizens based on social class, Nazi Germany they killed their citizens based on race and/or religion, and in the USSR they killed their citizens at random.
A perversion doesn't explain Lenin, Mussolini or Mao though. There are no examples of either extreme working for the good of their people.
The root issue is the belief that not only do I know better than you, I'm willing to use the force of government to 'help' you see what's best for you regardless of the will of the majority.
Consider 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (or in the far right's case, just a 'plain' dictatorship). That creates a theoretically benevolent dictator at the top, which leaves the top open for whatever clown - or psychopath - can take it, it's baked into both systems.
Pete
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