Tarsonis wrote:That's essentially more or less it. It's less a comparison of ideologies, and more about antics. The more extreme the ideology to the left and right the more prone to totalitarianism and authoritarianism they become to the point they largely indistinguishable. Hence while Fascist Germnay an Stalinist Russia were identically opposed, there's little difference between the two in terms of violence and authoritarianism.
Both regimes were responsible for atrocities, albeit the Nazi's were far more reaching and murderous, but in terms of governance, their states were radically different from each other. Horseshoe theory doesn't look at the details and just makes generalizations.