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Old 12-05-2008, 10:48 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tito View Post
I do not; the root of Nazism in Germany (like any government) is the individual philosophies of its citizens.

Peikoff wrote a good book on the matter

The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff
That seems as crude a way of looking at history as vulgar Marxism, if not more so. It seems to have the same dogmaticism as dialetic materialism.

History is complex and involves many threads.
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