re: #276 vitoc

This is just plain WRONG. Fascism was about the state, but not Nazism. Unlike the Italians, the German nazis did what they could to destroy the state - and replace it with movement organizations. For example: Police vs SS.

They did so because the state would have reduced their power - only with the uncertainty and dynamical nature of movements you get into full-on totalitarian territory, only then you get people fully terrorized if they do not know anymore what is actually allowed and what is not. The nazis wanted to get rid of the certainty that laws provide - they were not interested in enforcing laws they introduced, they wanted to enforce the Fhrer’s will. And that is by definition hard to know…

I realize you are not interested in reading “accepted historians” - but for those who are: Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism) and Ernst Frnkel (The Dual State) wrote in detail about specifically this.

Saddam Hussein had portraits of both Stalin and Hitler hanging on the wall in his presidential office. Remember when he appeared before the Baathist Party leaders, started pointing out people and denouncing them as traitors, then calmly smoked a cigar as they were immediately taken out and shot, and how the survivors fell all over each other loudly proclaiming their undying loyalty to him?