[Jerrek]

More food for thought:

For many decades, the leftists have been propagating the false dichotomy that the choice confronting the world is only: communism or fascism--a dictatorship of the left or of an alleged right--with the possibility of a free society, of capitalism, dismissed and obliterated, as if it had never existed.

From: The Presidential Candidates 1968, by Ayn Rand, in The Objectivist, June 1968, 5.

Indeed. I'm right, not left. I'm a capitalist, not a fascist/communist.


More info regarding the marriage of communism and fascism:

It is a matter of record that in the German election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis--with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.
From: 'Extremism,' or The Art of Smearing, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand C. 1966

And of course, the killer part:

It is obvious what the fraudulent issue of fascism versus communism accomplishes: it sets up, as opposites, two variants of the same political system; it eliminates the possibility of considering capitalism; it switches the choice of 'Freedom or dictatorship?' into 'Which kind of dictatorship?' --thus establishing dictatorship as an inevitable fact and offering only a choice of rulers. The choice--according to the proponents of that fraud--is: a dictatorship of the rich (fascism) or a dictatorship of the poor (communism).

It is too obvious, too easily demonstrable that fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory--that both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state--that both are socialistic, in theory, in practice, and in the explicit statements of their leaders--that under both systems, the poor are enslaved and the rich are expropriated in favor of a ruling clique--that fascism is not the product of the political 'right,' but of the 'left'--that the basic issue is not 'rich versus poor,' but man versus the state, or: individual rights versus totalitarian government--which means: capitalism versus socialism.

From: 'Extremism,' or The Art of Smearing, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand C. 1966