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Crucially, Polanyi warned that if the modern bourgeois order failed at this task, authoritarian and totalitarian political movements would benefit.
Its totalitarian secrecy, gargantuan military-industrial complex, ever-present KGB handlers, and apparent disdain for material comforts (at least for ordinary Russians) gave the Communist hegemon a perverse mystique that made even a simple visit to Red Square a trip to remember.
Where in the world can you find a more isolated, regimented and militarized dynastic mutation of a communist totalitarian system than in North Korea?
In this they are not entirely dissimilar from the totalitarian leaders of fascist movements, who likewise built on popular frustration to pursue an essentially destructive purpose in the name of anti-modern beliefs and promises.
Much of the history of the two centuries since Beethoven composed his opera has centered on that quest for freedom: the fight against colonial powers, the campaigns for basic human rights, the resistance to modern totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
Ubiquitous images of Kim Jong-il and his father, Kim Il-sung, are the official symbols of a secular theocracy based on juche (pronounced choocheh), the Kims’ contribution to the world’s patrimony of totalitarian ideologies.
But, despite appearances, few totalitarian regimes, save those of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, have ever maintained a monolithic inner circle of power.
Their ability to do so confirms that Iran is not a closed totalitarian state like North Korea.
Until recently, people in the Europe savagely controlled by totalitarian regimes also lived in a tainted and oppressed environment.
The word Yalta, too, has assumed a life of its own, serving for years as a symbol of a division of the world by the great powers: of the large and powerful deciding the fate of the small and powerless without asking their advice, of inadmissibly pragmatic concessions or compromises by democratic governments vis-?-vis the overpowering strength of a totalitarian regime.
Vivid memories of total war and genocide, frequently revived, hinder any revival of the totalitarian parties of the right.
In the end, there can be no stable democracy in Venezuela if it must co-exist with a large, totalitarian political party that can rely on funding from a corrupt, money-laundering elite.
Others who had inspired (if that is the correct word) the totalitarian menaces of the 20th century had long been dead by the time their ideas came to fruition.
After all, the one thing today’s autocrats have in common with their totalitarian predecessors is contempt for the rule of law, both domestically and internationally.
In the early decades of the communications revolution, totalitarian regimes sought to impose fictitious realities on their peoples by force.
Consequently, the arts of communication in these free countries are far subtler, skillful, and more varied than those in the totalitarian ones.
For reasons I have described, this time the forces of freedom would not be facing one totalitarian enemy.
For someone who lived through two totalitarian systems, it is almost unbearable to contemplate America’s decline.
Overthrowing a totalitarian regime and organizing elections may be hard, but the harder task is to go from voting to establishing a true democracy.
For people accustomed to living in a totalitarian state, learn what participation means is not easy.
Although the Iranian regime’s rhetoric may be totalitarian, political power there is much more diffused.
The Pope believed that he could either condemn both totalitarian powers or condemn neither of them.
This is not true of totalitarian or fundamentalist regimes, because, to foster free societies, they must be deposed.
The gravity of Venezuela’s situation and its effects on the entire hemisphere have thus far proved insufficient to mobilize a majority of OAS governments to convince Maduro that the region’s democracies will not stand by idly while a totalitarian dictatorship and base for international organized crime emerges.
It was the combination of an idea and the money to propagate it that created this monster and nurtured its ambition to forge a totalitarian caliphate.
Soros is of Hungarian and Jewish origin, and Beck’s attack, called “The Puppet-Master?”, recycles, almost in carbon copy, the tropes of the most virulent anti-Semitic ideologies of the totalitarian movements of the first half of the twentieth century.
And, while the Wall was built by a totalitarian regime to prevent its own people from crossing a border in search of freedom and economic opportunity, the new barriers are often the work of leading democracies – including the United States, the European Union, and India – that want to keep such people out.
As a result, we live in a world that is more economically and socially interconnected than ever, but increasingly divided territorially by physical barriers that are taller, longer, and stronger than their totalitarian antecedent’s planners could ever imagine.
that “all totalitarian regimes grow old without realizing it.”
It should not be used as a modern ideology, for it is likely to become totalitarian.
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