John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse | FiveBooks | The Browser

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He is able to demonstrate that although the belief systems were
different – in the case of Leninism and Stalinism it was grounded in
dialectical materialism, in the case of Nazism in a pseudo-science
founded on racism – and different from the belief systems that
animated the medieval and early modern millenarians, the categories of
thinking were strikingly similar. For instance, the idea of history as
moving towards a cataclysmic conflict between dark and good forces
which would shake the foundations of the world. That is just one
example of the type of thinking that was preserved and reproduced in
20th century totalitarianism

---SPSmith