PrintJanuary 22, 2011
The Taming of the Masses
One of the most dangerous strategies of the totalitarians in our midst is the deliberate confusion they create around the notion of totalitarianism. Only a fraction of "educated" people know that so-called "right-wing" fascists and "left-wing" socialists historically occupy the same end of the sociopolitical spectrum. The reason most people don't know this is because for eighty years, the "left" has engaged in a campaign to disguise the fact that it is fundamentally a totalitarian movement. It all started back in the 1930s. While the Soviet communists of that era had a different way of dealing with economic production, their Marxist-Leninist approach to politics, law, civil society, and the masses under their control was for the most part indistinguishable from how the Nazis handled such matters. For both of these totalitarian regimes, it was dictatorship from the top and rigid regimentation throughout the ranks of...(Read Full Article)
