After reading your informative piece, I offer the following:
What inextricably “unites” the politics of socialism and fascism is their virtually identical embrace of their accepted morality. In their quest to practice it, their professed “moral” ends justify their particular and “differing” political means to achieving them.
This is distinct from, for example, the American political experiment. An experiment in which the moral concept of individual rights (means!) justified the political “ends” such means produced.
Ari:
After reading your informative piece, I offer the following:
What inextricably “unites” the politics of socialism and fascism is their virtually identical embrace of their accepted morality. In their quest to practice it, their professed “moral” ends justify their particular and “differing” political means to achieving them.
This is distinct from, for example, the American political experiment. An experiment in which the moral concept of individual rights (means!) justified the political “ends” such means produced.
Dave