When you come to understand the nature of a place, you need to amend your life to reflect that understanding.
It is important to be antifascist, and also to be conscious of the authoritarian dangers of an overly socialist mindset -- while at the same time, one does need to be as ruthless as a commissar or a private-sector-military type. In a broad sense, my country has deployed one sensibility against one, and another against another, but the dangers of not thinking at all have no inherent adversary. Indeed, there are many who seem very much in favor of it as a collective strategy (e.g., perhaps, the dope-the-ghetto clouds of marihuana vapors on the streetcorners).
The differences between right Hegelianism and left Hegelianism were finally settled, as Rorty was fond of saying, at a six month long academic seminar entitled the Battle of Stalingrad. Society has a right to guard itself against the dangers of collective beliefs. But the guards against collective belief should not necessarily give the rule in matters of private understanding.
To enter into the errors of ether side would indeed be error. But you must become conscious of your own existence (classically, that presence which is not quiddity: freedom), and its meaning, and its morality -- or it will be taken from you, and then done away with.