All leaders are characterized by their pursuit of power.

Those leaders who amass their power in industrial expansion, or financial manipulation find their identity in the Right. Their implements of power are money, assets, and industrial/technical control.

Leaders whose accumulation of of power is based on theory and ideology find their identity and their power in their ability to motivate underlings toward paths of system-renovation or revolution. Collectivism is their only truly persuasive tool to generate social ascendency against the industrial/financial might of elite rich people. As Leftist leaders are able to motivate followers toward revision of the manipulative "system", those socialist leaders find their power and their satisfaction in the destruction of the rapacious capitalist system--or merely their overtaking of "the means of production."

Leftist leaders' only self-esteem--their only power-- is observable only in their self-satisfaction of having reversed the faux-zeitgeist of 19th-20th century capitalism.

The ultimate expression of this dynamic was, in fact, the puny moustachio'd madman who was able to manipulate German rage into a torrent of national socialist hate--the little colonel with the grudge against the world who directed home-grown antisemitism into a concentration camp network of absolute destruction of modern Europe.

So we discover through history that Left and Right actually meet each other at the bottom of the Control ring when both are shown to be systems for violent, murderous manipulations of human aspiration.

Hitler and Stalin were instruments of the same control-freak Will to Power, first identified by the ancient Hebrew prophet, Daniel, as the Leader who worships the "God of Forces.". . . Might makes right (or left)

May it never happen again!