... , who called upon their followers to annihilate all who differed in their world views. The book was based upon years of reflection, and his own observations of the rise of fascism, Nazism, and communism as reactions to the Great Depression. He stresses that for the "true believer," a person so committed to a cause that he or she is willing to unthinkingly die for it, ideologies ... are interchangeable. It is the frustrations of life which lead believers to join a cause that gives meaning to their own existences, and the more frustrated they feel, the more attracted they are to extreme re...

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