"Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent."
Eugen Kogon was a German writer, political scientist, and survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He became widely known for The Theory and Practice of Hell, an influential study of the Nazi camp system. He later worked as a public intellectual in postwar Germany and Europe.