In my new column for Complete Colorado, I discuss the relationship between Nazism and socialism. I take the position that Nazism is a type of socialism, distinct from Communism and hostile toward it, but also similar to it in important respects. “Socialism” is the broader category in this context.
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