The reality is that capitalism, communism, and every other sweeping ideology feed off the same human drives—the founder’s or revolutionary’s narcissistic will to power, and the mass man’s desire to be part of something bigger than himself—even if with very different outcomes. National Socialism, Technofuturism, Bolshevism, the Islamic State, Pan-Arabism, la Commune, Jonestown, the Crusades, la mission civilisatrice, the white man’s burden, evangelical Christianity, Manifest Destiny, Spanish Falangism, the Church of Latter-day Saints, the Cuban Revolution—the villain with a thousand faces,
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