The Competing Ideologies for the Collectivist Mind
Competition creates service from businesses, and competition produces benefits for everyone. Neither are politics and ideologies exempt from competition, with Republicans and Democrats going door to door for their candidates, having political rallies, or even fighting in the streets. Despite this, these two parties aren’t as different as their supporters may realize. When Ukraine was invaded by Russia, they jumped on the opportunity for possible defense contracts.
Ideologies or parties that may seem completely opposite can be “bipartisan” in many aspects. Fascism, National Socialism, and Marxian socialism are three such ideologies: different enough to compete, but similar enough to attract the same type of person, that person being of the collectivist mindset that the group is more important than the individual.
Frederick Hayek in The Road to Serfdom states:
It is true of course that in Germany before 1933, and in Italy before 1922, communist and Nazis or Fascist clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties. They competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. But their practice showed how closely they were related.
The person of the collective mindset is more prone to fall into such groups, they may want the well-being of the class or the race over the individual. To ensure the success or domination of either, the state must be used as a tool of power. This is the danger of the collective mind. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, and Karl Marx all fell into these mindsets.
Hitler: The Nazi Competitor
After the end of World War One, the German royal family was dethroned and the November revolution saw the creation of the People’s State of Bavaria, run by Kurt Eisner; a socialist Jew. It’s worthy to mention there was a split between the communists and socialists at this time as the communist parties wanted to be connected to the Soviet Comintern, while the socialist parties wanted to be more independent.
Either way, Hitle
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