Marxism and Fascism – Convergences, Divergences, and the Web of Contradictions
The twentieth century bore witness to two colossal ideologies. Both claimed to offer humanity a utopian promise — the assurance of boundless happiness, the end of suffering, the dawn of a perfected society. Yet, what bound them together was not merely the dream of paradise, but also their common intent to erase all traditional conceptions of good and evil that civilization had preserved through millennia. Marxism decreed that no individual should own any property beyond what was absolutely necessary for survival; no one would have a home or a granary whose doors were closed to others. Human beings were to live collectively, to eat from the same table, in a condition of cooperative fraternity. Wealth, as a private concept, would vanish; capital would cease to exist. All property would rest in the hands of the State. Which, in practice, meant not the faceless abstraction of the “State,” but rather the omnipotent authority of the Politburo — or worse, the single supreme leade...