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Christopher Hitchens: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ramadan

Decoding the Gurus

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The Importance of Ideology in the Iraq War

Under the best ideals people can justify the worst atrocities is certainly true and that is also the case in like communist regimes. The goal of communism as opposed to fascism whereas fascism at least you know they are both utopian visions but the fascist one does have a kind of uber man at the top and an exclusion of the well no maybe this as I say it comes the exclusion of people, suppressive forces and communist state suppliesWell what I all I want to mean is like the communist ideal of a utopia where everybody is well provisioned and there are no divisions between people by artificial structures it is a utopian beautiful vision. Does fascism have at the end of the day similarly beautiful vision rest on the bodies

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