Nacional-Socialismo y
Comunismo
“Many of
the similarities between national socialism and comunism lie upon the Surface
and are manifest. Both throve on social and economic demoralisation, which was
partly an aftermath of war but which reflected
also inheret maladjustments of Western society. Both were political
dictatorships. (---)
Both were
obliged to reinstate the purge as a political institution. Both tolerated only
a single political party, which was allowed to maintain its own coercive
aparatus. According to the theory of both the party was a self-constituted
aristocry which has de misión partly of leading, partly of instructing, and
partly of coercing the bulk of mankind along the road that it must follow. Both
were totalitarian, in the sense that
they obliterated the liberal distinction beween áreas of privat judgment and of
public control, and both turned the educational system into an agency of
universal indoctrination. In their philosophy both were utterly dogmatic,
professing, the one in the name of the Aryan race and the other in the name of
the proletariat. (---)
Dispite
these manifest similarities, however, it ist certain what comunism was on a far
higher level, both morally and intellectually, than national socialism. The
difference is apparent in the lives of the two men who became the symbols of
each. Both Hitler and Stalin were tyrants; on the score of personal wickedness
there was nothing to choose between them. But as far as concerns the values of
civilized policy Hitler can be connected with his carreer. He was an unmitigated
desaster for Germany and for Europe. Stalin used to de full the methods of
brutality and terrorism, yet there can
be Little doubt that historians will describe the cuarter century of his rule
as a period in which Russia not only became a great political power but was
transformed economically and socially into a modern nation.”
George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory, New York, 1961, p. 925 )
