s, and the agrarian reformers of the nineteenth century. In all these figures
             he perceives a line of revolt against cultural and social modernization, a revolt driven by
             the illusory and passionate longing for the reestablishment for an understandable,
             autarchic world. In this context of terror stretching across the globe and over the
             centuries, the annihilation appears as a regrettable, but perfectly understandable, result.
             ...At this level of abstraction ..... all cats are grey.... [J. Knowleton and T. Cates (trans)
             Forever in the Shadow of Hitler: Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, 1993, p. 39.]
             On the other side Karl Deitrich Bracher complained that;
             'insights have been fatally and widely repressed in the past two decades by tabooing the
             concept of totalitarianism and inflating the formula for fascism...It is as if there had not
             already existed, for some time, a body of serious research into the totalitarian movements
             and regimes of our century.' (ibid. p 72)
             At its core lay the claim that beneath the surface lie vital structural and ideological similarities
             between communist and fascist systems, which together form an antithesis to 'Western' liberal
             democratic systems. At its crudest communism becomes simply a left-wing form of Nazism,
             subject to the same life-negating, authoritarian and genocidal potential. In such literature Soviet
             Gulags and nazi concentration camps become surface symbols of a deeper identity obscured
             beneath opposing left-right ideological facades and turf wars.
             The righteous struggle against all forms of 'totalitarianism' whether right or left became a
             crusade to restore the morally superior systems of the market economy and liberal democracy.
             Although it should be noted that amongst those inspired by this model there was noticeably less
             time spent and ink spilt devoted to struggles against totalitarianisms of the fascist right...