Tim Worstall explains why Dennis MacShane is wrong about Stalin, Hitler & comparing them

Tim Worstall takes Dennis MacShane to task and quite nicely:

"As I’ve said before, we can note the difference between people being killed on the grounds of race and and those being killed on the grounds of class. But it’s the killing of people which should be bringing the condemnation, not the grounds for the killing. For it’s the killing of people that’s wrong, d’ye see?

And thus there is a moral equivalence between Nazism and Communism.

Indeed, we might even go further….facism existed in various flavours and only in one instance did it become that pit of evil whereas almost everywhere communism has gained power the flavour of the death camps was similar."

There's plenty more about Dennis MacShane here.