9 years and 4500 Dead Americans

[Urbane Guerrilla]

The Ba'ath models itself on Fascist philosophy, and has since its WW2-era invention. Have a google at it. I think you will find it interesting.

And is it not so that neither you nor I would like to have to live on the difference between the "totalitarian right" and the "totalitarian left" anyway? Your drawing a distinction between them is, I think, ill advised: give Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot, Erik von Kühnelt-Leddihn, a good read.

It's magisterial, thorough, in places eccentric, and unrebutted. He makes a hell of a case for "left" totalitarians and "right" totalitarians being undistinguishable, and contends there is little point in trying to partition either philosophy from the other. I found his thesis fascinating. He did show an eccentric devotion to the throne of Austria-Hungary, for a strange note in the work -- figures Austria-Hungary's royal house's fall was the proximate cause of Eastern Europe's slide into a hell of collectivism and un-capitalism and Western Europe's close, and he believed ill-advised, approaches thereunto. How it might have prevented that descent by there still being an Austria-Hungary or its empire, I don't recall his getting into. Perhaps some other work.