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Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

a friend pointed out that this analogy is flawed, and I thought so even while writing it. I have leftist friends who would say I am insulting Stalin. Yes, of course Netanyahu is not a leftist and is perhaps more dangerous--yet parts of the analogy are useful.

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the analogy to Hitler after the burning of the Reichstag is a better analogy in many respects, but the Hitler analogies are so common these days that i wanted to try something a bit more original. I was not taking a progressive or a conservative position.

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