Comparing Clinton regime to Hitler regime

[Brad De Long]

>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>Probably because there were lots of people at the end of World War II who
>>forecast "overtaking"--think of Paul Sweezy, or of Khrushchev's "we will be
>>there at your funeral".
>>
>>The claim, after all, was always "this is the one true road to Utopia." It
>>was not "this is a slightly better development strategy than the one that
>>the Dictator Salazar is pursuing in Portugal."
>
>Just because that's the claim doesn't mean we latecomers have to accept it
>as the criterion. People tend to idealize (rare today) or demonize (almost
>universal today) the Soviet experience, but neither point of view takes it
>very seriously as something to be learned from.
>
>Doug

True...