Donald Kagan's "On the Origins of War," is another
work worth mentioning. BTW: He was born in Kursenai,
in the district of Siauliai, Lithuania to a Jewish
family. He came from very good stock -
which may explain his talent and inquiring mind.

What is clear to anyone that can read a dictionary is that Nazi's / fascists were socialists.

While it is true that the Nazi's did not get on with those that called themselves socialists it was largely because those "socialists" were of the Marxist/communist stripe.

What left whinge extremists hate is that socialism while purporting to be the vehicle for social justice has delivered tyranny in various forms kills millions of people in the process.

Both Hitler and Stalin were socialists as was Mao and Xi Jinping whose regime more resembles fascism.

shadow minister,

The following link may makes things even clearer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nazism_and_Stalinism

mhaze- Solzhenitsyn seems to be a superior intellect- I listened to the speech at Harvard and read the wiki article plot of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- It's interesting in a sense that the Khrushchev regime banned the book. There are many excellent quotes- truly a gold mine. Thanks for helping out a neighbourhood engineer

Foxy,

That article explains well the two extremes of socialist dictatorships.

shadow minister,

The link I gave explains the differences of the
two systems and how they were different in a
number of aspects. It explains the differences between
the two extremes and why they're not the same.