Subject: Re: An aside
But you are correct in your analysis of the economic ideologies behind socialism and fascism. Though the socialism of the USSR/Bolsheviks never attained that "ideal". Ownership was not held in common by the workers. In practice, he wasn't quite a fascist, but he was pretty close. There was no capitalism (except on the black market), but there was no common ownership, either. The government of the USSR owned the means of production for the most part, and at its head was a totalitarian not much different than any other dictator.

At some point the left/right divide doesn't matter and all authoritarian regimes converge on the same point, regardless of what ideological goals got them there:

*Repression of basic human rights
*State control of media and communications
*Tops-down driven control of the nation's economy
*Often militaristic tendencies