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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Marxism is every bit as vile, odious, and extreme as Nazism.[/quote]

Marxism is a theory of economics and history (he read Hegel). If anyone has ever read Das Kapital his thesis boils down to the idea that goods receive their value from the labor it takes to produce them, so if profit results, it is by definition theft from the people whose labor went into them (this could include the work of engineering/industrial design, procurement, etc).

But he also observed the conditions of laborers in England--a Dickensian existence. He described the children working their (short) lives away, getting no education contrasted with "Mr. Moneybags." And in fact a lot of the capital used to develop industry in England was LITERALLY theft of the value of labor--from the slave trade prior to abolishing the slave trade, then indentured Indians (I mean, slavery and colonization gave them a pretty dam big base to work with).

Of course, history and economics turn out to be more complicated, that's all. But clearly English capitalism was, for millions of people, a brutal system itself. There isn't anything inherently evil in Marxism. I have also read about people in former communist countries who really did regret changes, because things had worked ok for them under previous regimes.

Fascism is, I think, inherently more evil, precisely because of the degree to which ultranationalism (and racism) is part of its core. It also arose out of resentment and a sense of humiliation (Italy and Germany clearly). It's natural allies at the outside are the groups with the greatest financial power (who tend to be conservative and want to keep what they have) and its opponents (socialists, trade unionists, etc) tend to lack that power.

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