[janus]

Then there’s the question of whether or not people can be made by government to behave better. They can certainly be made to behave worse; fascism is the proof of that, and so is Stalinism

He's still a hypocrite. Even here where he makes his attack on the philosophy of fascism, but lets socialism off the hook by only accusing the Stalinist form.

[jodorowsky]

He's a bit more nuanced than you might think from this quote. The video interview I link to at post 10 goes right into it. Though you know, he never does directly answer the direct question:

Peter Robinson: But would you say then, Christopher, I'll put it a little bit crudely but it's television, would you say then that the Soviet state was a good idea gone awry or a good idea captured by Stalin and Brute (sic -- jodorowsky). That is to say, had things turned out differently, had Trotsky risen to power instead of Stalin that the communist revolution might, in fact, have been commendable or are the ideas, in and of themselves, so distorted and so mistaken that the whole thing was bound to spin out very badly?