why horse shoe theory is wrong: communism isn't inherently totalitarian, in fact anarcho-communists are the correct form of communism. So why does communism become totalitarian? Because it's ideas are against reality, and can never manifest themselves, (1)
because of this, the communist will reach for totalitarianism to FORCE his ideas into reality. Totalitarian Socialism is communism failing to manifest its philosophy due to being antithetical to life/reality. Totalitarianism isn't bad, it's another tool, but the foundation of (2)
communism is never going to work period. Horse theory misses this point, and paints all forms of totalitarianism as one and the same. It's a fundamental lack of knowledge and understanding of philosophy on the part of the HS theorist to conflate NatSoc with Communsim (3)
ie. it's insidious and dishonest to use HS theory to attack an ideological opponent. (final)
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