“However they may be as economic theories, **#Fascism and #Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life**. The same is probably true of **Stalin**'s militarised version of #Socialism. **All three of the great #dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples.** Whereas Socialism, and even #capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people _‘I offer you a good time,’_ **Hitler** has said to them _‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’_ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last #war.”

George #Orwell, writing about #Hitler, in March 1940.

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