By that parameter anyone who uses violence to consolidate political power is similar
“By that parameter anyone who uses violence to consolidate political power is similar”
You can do it and still make sense if you don’t try and claim that they were all part of the same political philosophy.
Paul Johnson dealt with this in his Modern Times. He called them gangster governments. Hitler, Stalin, Tojo. Somehow he resisted the urge to label them all “socialist”.