Both communism and fascism claim, as do all great social ideologies, to speak for “the people” as a whole, for the future of all mankind. However, it is interesting to notice that both provide, even in their public words, for the existence of an “élite” or “vanguard.” The élite is, of course, the managers and their political associates, the rulers of the new society. Naturally the ideologies do not put it in this way. As they say it, the élite represents, stands for, the people as a whole and their interests.
