“The two regimes, having started from opposite ends, are rapidly evolving towards the same system—a form of oligarchical collectivism,” Orwell wrote in his review of Borkenau, anticipating the title of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book in Nineteen Eighty-Four : The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. “The sin of nearly all leftwingers from 1933 onwards,” he later wrote, “is that they have wanted to be anti-Fascist without being anti-totalitarian.”
