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Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is sexier than communism.

Source: Under the Sign of Saturn, Fascinating Fascism (1980; first published 1974). This fact, Sontag parenthetically added, is not to the Nazis' credit, but rather shows something of the nature and lim
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.

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