The common factor in mass state murder is militant Facism. There's no right or left, there's a willingness to commit mass-murder and a violent takeover of the state. It's incontrovertible that democide was one of the worst forces of the 20th century, but bizarre and dangerous to associate it with some one-dimensional "left/right" projection of 21st century identity politics.
Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler - these are figureheads that became objects of popular worship. If Monarchies were a thing, they would have been monarchs. If Theocracies were a thing, they would have been theocrats. If corporations were a thing, they would have been admirable profiteers.
I had guessed you were going to drop the ‘Nazis were socialist’ line, and there it is! The ‘National Socialist German Worker’s Party’ were about as socialist as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is democratic (that is, not at all…)
