There's a secondary point here, too, though: >He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. >Nazism as a mino

There's a secondary point here, too, though: >He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. >Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would. Many people can become swept up into revolutionary-esque fervors. For a desire to be on the winning side, for a change from a lackluster status quo, and in some cases for a chance of attaining some power themselves. It usually involves some sort of in-group behavior, with elements of nationalism or elitism or an equivalent, but it doesn't have to necessarily. You could potentially apply this to early Russian Communists. Not all of them, for sure. Many truly believed in the ideology and wanted to implement it. But you need a lot of the sort of people described in this article to sustain a major revolution.