In contemporary right-wing movements a particularly important part has been played by ex-Communists who have moved rapidly, though not without anguish, from the paranoid left to the paranoid right, clinging all the while to the fundamentally Manichean psychology that underlies both. Some authorities on communism remind one of those ancient converts from paganism to Christianity of whom it is told that on their conversion they did not entirely cease to believe in their old gods but converted them into demons.Sound like anyone you know?
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