re: #220 Salamantis

Read my post #146. Fascism is national, because it is rooted in race and tribe, and thus is tied to the soil from which the pure blood sprang, while communism is international, because it is rooted in the dissolution of class distinctions, which can be found all over. This is why fascist genocides are directed at races (Jews, Gypsies, blacks), while communist genocides are directed at classes (the bourgeoise).

Yet the socialist/communist “leftists” seemed to inevitably drift over to extreme nationalism, too (Stalin, Mao, to some extent Castro). And Stalin VERY MUCH went after races/ethnicities (who was it that dubbed him “Breaker of Nations”?). I agree with, e.g., Vasily Grossman; you wind up with systems that are almost indistinguishable.