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It’s important to note that Nazism basically discredited the idea of particularism in a broad sense. That is “the nation/tribe is more important and its interests can and must overtake the interests of other nations/the world”.
The whole post war ideology of liberalism is built on this. The Holocaust and the Nazis serve as a foil of sorts for modern internationalist liberalism. By the Nazis’ crimes, Nationalism and third positionist politics were morally discredited in the west. They only held currency in the colonial world, as coincidentally anti western rebellions.
Never again, could nations assert themselves or nation take precedence over the market or the “world community”.
Communism is closer to modern Liberalism in that regard, communists and liberal western capitalism may disagree on how society should be run, but they do agree that universalism-must be implemented. They(either a world communist revolution) or triumph of liberal Democratic capitalism(as in Fukayama’s 1991 proclamation) must overcome the world and all its national and tribal and religious divisions.
Therefore communist crimes are somewhat more justifiable, they were fighting not only for a better world but a universalized one. Nationalists weren’t fighting for the world, but for their own tribe/language/nation. And that is the worst thing imaginable.
You might argue the governing ideology in the west today is Universalist Liberalism. Which as I have said finds communism more congenial because of its similarities.
The whole post war ideology of liberalism is built on this. The Holocaust and the Nazis serve as a foil of sorts for modern internationalist liberalism. By the Nazis’ crimes, Nationalism and third positionist politics were morally discredited in the west. They only held currency in the colonial world, as coincidentally anti western rebellions.
Never again, could nations assert themselves or nation take precedence over the market or the “world community”.
Communism is closer to modern Liberalism in that regard, communists and liberal western capitalism may disagree on how society should be run, but they do agree that universalism-must be implemented. They(either a world communist revolution) or triumph of liberal Democratic capitalism(as in Fukayama’s 1991 proclamation) must overcome the world and all its national and tribal and religious divisions.
Therefore communist crimes are somewhat more justifiable, they were fighting not only for a better world but a universalized one. Nationalists weren’t fighting for the world, but for their own tribe/language/nation. And that is the worst thing imaginable.
You might argue the governing ideology in the west today is Universalist Liberalism. Which as I have said finds communism more congenial because of its similarities.