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Comment author: taelor 09 March 2013 05:34:51PM 0 points [-]

One thing that both Communists/Socialists and Nationalists have in common is that they are both believers in what Peter Drucker calls "Salvation by Society". Obviously, they vehemently disagree about the details of what exactly a savior society would look like, but they both believe in the same basic premise: that it is possible and desirable for humans to be redeemed or purified via political action.