The State Above All: How Nazism, Fascism, and “Democratic Socialism” Are Just Rebrands of the Same Philosophy
There’s a dangerous lie repeated in our classrooms and newsrooms: that fascism and socialism are bitter enemies, opposite poles of ideology. We are told Mussolini’s Blackshirts stood against Marx, that Hitler’s stormtroopers fought communism, that today’s “democratic socialism” is a new, kinder breed altogether. It’s false. At the core, each of these movements shares the […]
The Radical Danger of Empathy
The assassin wants you to believe he is misunderstood. The ideologue wants you to imagine his “cause” so vividly that his violence seems righteous. The criminal wants his theft to feel like justice. If we grant them our empathy, we make their case for them. And in doing so, we abandon the innocent. The murdered wife. The robbed storekeeper. The child shattered by violence. To empathize with the criminal is, by necessity, to withdraw empathy from his victims. Society cannot afford that trade.