Leitura recomendada

Alain de Benoist, "Nazism and Communism: Evil Twins?" A book review of Stéphane Courtois, ed., Le Livre Noir du Communisme.

"(...) one can infer communism did not contradict its principles when it killed people, but followed them — in other words, that communism was not just a system which committed crimes, but one whose very essence was criminal."

"Those who had the sad privilege of being imprisoned both in the Soviet and in the Nazi camps had the opportunity to compare them concretely."

"The comparison between communism and Nazism is in fact not only legitimate, but indispensable because, without it, these two phenomena become unintelligible."

"To compare regimes is not to assimilate them: comparable regimes are not necessarily the same. To compare means to consider two distinct individual phenomena within the same category. It is neither to trivialize nor to relativize."

"It would amount to contraposing a definition of communism by its supporters to a definition of Nazism by its opponents. Under these conditions, it is not difficult to make the first appear as good as the latter evil. From an artificial asymmetry, one draws a conclusion no less artificial. This is a non sequitur."