Aug 08, 2012 7:33 AM
The Left-Right spectrum of political power is a false one, invented and promoted by the Progressives. As Williams points out, Progressivism is merely Socialism under a dissembling name. Franco, Mussolini, Batista, and company all represented forms of tyranny which varied only in the scope of power they exercised. Soviet and Chinese Communism and Nazism represented totalitarian power, that is, complete control of an individual's life. Mussolini's Fascism (often seen as synonymous with Nazism, which it was in many respects) was a form of "corporatism," that is, it tried to rally Italians under a form of macho collectivism similar to Hitler's, but with less success. In fact, Hitler borrowed many ideas from the Soviets in the way of Party organ