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Ideologies of National Socialism, Communism, Christianity, and Islam

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In this chapter, the empirical evidence for supreme values will be discussed for National Socialism, Communism, and Christian and Islamic believes.

This chapter has been partly reproduced from Necessary Conditions for Totalitarianism, in: G. Radnitzky and H. Bouillon (eds.), Government: Servant or Master, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi 1993.

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    I stress again that the metaphysical truth of these religions is not doubted at all, but that only the possible consequences of their statements on earth are discussed.

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    The following presentation of the statements of Marx and Engels rests strongly on Löw (1988a).

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Bernholz, P. (2017). Ideologies of National Socialism, Communism, Christianity, and Islam. In: Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values. Studies in Public Choice, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56907-9_2

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