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"By the way, a mixture of Socialism and Capitalism sounds pretty much like Nazism to me"

I suggest you study politics more then. Nazism is a form of dictatorship whereas the combination of socialism and capitalism are defined as a democracy. Thoygh one should imo be aware that that doesn't say anything about how democratic the society is; democracy isn't a proposition. This combination of socialism and capitalism is the system some people from the US claim you and i as Benelux civilians are living in. Last time i checked, Flip de Winter isn't in power in Belgium.

Actually I meant that the a mixture of socialism and capitalism is, what concerns economics, quite like nazism. I didn't really mean to say Socialism/Capitalism is as authoritarian. However, I believe that Socialism and Communism are far more authoritarian than people are being told. Lenin, for instance, was very authoritarian and he didn't differ much from Stalin at certain issues. Think of Saddam, who himself said Hitler was a weak leader. His example was Stalin. There are things happening in certain modern communist/socialist states that do not differ from what Hitler did at all.

Facism is - and I'm not the only person who think that - a kind of Socialism. And that's not because Nazism (regarded as fascist) means "National Socialism", but rather because of what we see when we compare the Third Reich's Nazi regime to Communist/Socialist states.

"When you start combining this system with a "religion" of software/technology/etc (think of the Linux cult) and making everything electronic, we will be dealing with a new kind of a brutal regime."

Pure FUD and Flaming. How exactly can the GPL result in such a brutal regime? You forgot to state some of your great logic, my friend.

It's about the philosophies behind the whole thing (Linux was only an example). The way people get obsessed by their operating system, other software, technology and science is - I believe - very frightening. It becomes like a religion, but because it worships something made by humans, I call it a "pseudo-religion".

There's more I could say about this, but I haven't got much time now and we should bear in mind that this is Osnews.com, a site dedicated to Operating Systems.

@ Nicholas Blachford

However you may be interested in this page if you take the test (it's not long) a fasinating analysis follows adding an authoritarian-libertarian element to traditional Left-Right politics.

http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/

I know Political Compass and I've even done the test a few times. I personally don't support the traditional Left-Right line and I think Political Compass has made a good alternative.