.PsychedelicDiamond said:.
There is a certain pattern to that, you know. The farther you go the left the more scientific and the more theoretical will the ideologies get. Marxism is a science, rather than a doctrine and so are most other, more obscure leftist theories. However, the farther you go to the right, the more will you drift into spritiualism, occultism, religion and other form of superstition and the less connection will these ideologies have to factual, material reality. Even past Hitler and Mussolini, the two grandfathers of the modern far right, rightist philosopher like Evola, or, for a modern and rather influential example, Aleksandr Dugin (Look him up, he's had great influence on neofascist propaganda mouthpiece Lauren Southern) promote a worldview that religious much more than political, an apocalyptic totalitarian dogma hiding behing notions of national and ethnic identity.
I like this paragraph.
Stalin was a cutthroat propelled into stardom by a string of brutal acts of violence against the whites, calculated political maneuvering around fellow generals and the nagging paranoid belief that the same can be done to him... A frightening man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TK9c-caEcw
Do you remember the Kulaks? Pepperidge farms remember.
I do place him on the same pedestal as hitler though. I do believe he had earned that dishonor and notoriety. In the same cesspool as Nguema, Trujillo and Pol Pot... The body-count doesn't need to be the key factor in determining your target of scorn. It is often the acts they participated in, encouraged or allowed that determine it...