At Sigmund, Carl and Albert, where there are often perceptive analyses of leftist psychopathology, there was recently a commentary on how the Nazi and Soviet concept of the Ubermensch, a type of best- or super-man, perdures within the contemporary Left.
Notably, past and present “Ubercrats” have sought academic approval to establish their bona fides and to use as a cornerstone of their totalitarian states. This unholy symbiosis continues to work as follows:
Many leftists and Ubercrats now desperately seek the credibility of an academic imprimatur, before their biases and lies are realized. Universities are filled with leftist ubermensch professors for whom ideology is more important than truth. Like their German and Soviet predecessors, leftist and Ubercrat ideologues do little to hide their agenda, or contempt for those who still embrace reality and truth. Leftist ideologues embrace moral relativism, equating all moralities. Leftist ideologues are threatened by religion, because religion might mean a lessened loyalty to their cause- or whatever cause du jour they espouse at a particular time. Leftist ideologues are threatened by any standard of measurement- because they fear they might be measured and found wanting. That too, is why leftists embrace the illusion of multiculturalism- that all cultures are equal, with none better than the other. The fear of measurement and comparison is real.
Leftist ideologues fear and despise capitalism because capitalism allows for the freedom and self expression of each individual, ideas anathema to leftist ideologues. Like the Nazis and Soviet communists before them, it is their vision and their vision only that is acceptable.
Read more about the parallels Sigmund et al. perceive between the old and newly minted Ubermenschen.