I think it's kind of interesting that each member of the three worldviews that were duking it out in Europe in the 20th century (liberalism, communism, and fascism) viewed the other two as basically reducible to the same thing. For a liberal, fascism and communism are both totalitarianism and so basically the same. For a fascist, liberalism and communism are both soulless regimes of mediocrity and so basically the same. For a communist, liberalism and fascism are both capitalist ideologies and so basically the same.
People who engage in black and white thinking don't like triads.
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Derrida on Heartfield
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 3:18 PM
> Or it could be retrospectively viewed
> like liberalism, where the ideology
> that ends up "winning" (if not in the way that it expected
> to) is the
> authentic, natural trajectory of human history and all the
> others are
> indistinguishable barbarisms.
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