“…the totalitarian states, whether of the fascist or the communist persuasion, are more than superficially alike as dictatorships, in the suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies. They are profoundly alike.”

Quote in The Good Society by Walter Lippmann, Transaction Publications (2005) p. 89. First published in 1937.

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