03-09-2022, 03:01 AM
The point is that extremists and fanatics often become like those that they excoriate (Nazis becoming like Stalinists) or how they see their enemies (Nazis acting in ways characteristic of their strawman enemy). Pinochet and Castro were alike in repression and terror even though they saw each other as the embodiment of evil..
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.