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But the real breakthrough came in 1989, when Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II, a Polish priest who had spent the past decade framing his papacy as part of the opposition to the Soviet’s atheistic totalitarian rule.
As Alexis de Tocqueville once warned, a state doesn’t need to be fully totalitarian to experience tyranny.
After all, the Soviet Union was a totalitarian state that could rely on a powerful and ubiquitous secret police.
Of course, the presence of extremist views in the executive branch does not make America a totalitarian state.
In a sad irony they seem to have been proven right only recently, when democracy’s greatest triumph, the defeat of totalitarian communism, also ushered in a world of deracinated commitments.
Our "post-democratic" folk do not believe in the spirit of community; they fear it, not without reason, as tainted by the legacy of collectivism, and therefore riven with totalitarian tendencies.
Stalin LivesThe legacy of dead dictators from vanquished totalitarian regimes should no longer be ambivalent.
The threats emanating from the Middle East are diverse: regional conflicts, totalitarian religious ideologies (mainly led by Shia Iran and Wahhabi Saudi Arabia), terrorism, nuclear armament programs, obstacles to modernization, and unstable regimes.
Rather than heralding a new era of freedom, the Internet is enabling Chinese authorities to perfect totalitarian control in a way that puts the rulers in George Orwell’s 1984 to shame.
Some might object that these events were not really social epidemics like speculative bubbles, because a totalitarian government ordered them, and the resulting deaths reflect government mismanagement more than investment error.
The EU, established to break the destructive cycle of European nationalism that had facilitated the rise of two totalitarian systems and caused two world wars, amounted to the creation of a prototype of a humane world order.
To kill so many people in the 20th century, a Hitler or Stalin required the apparatus of a totalitarian government.
In the old Soviet zone, it soon became clear that it would lead to a totalitarian satellite regime.
Vaguely defined terms are a standard part of the totalitarian toolkit, and they always begin, as Hedges notes, with legislation that subverts the rule of law by enabling the arbitrary exercise of power.
Popper showed that totalitarian ideologies like communism and Nazism have a common element: they claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth.
Popper juxtaposed these totalitarian ideologies with another view of society, one which recognizes that no one has a monopoly on the truth; different people have different views and different interests, and there is a need for institutions that allow them to live together in peace.
Totalitarian ideologies were its enemies.
Totalitarian ideologies deliberately seek to destroy the open society; laissez-faire policies endanger it, but inadvertently.
But because communism--and even socialism--have been thoroughly discredited, I consider the threat from the laissez-faire side more potent today than the threat from totalitarian ideologies.
In the case of totalitarian doctrines, that appeal can easily be dismissed.
Even then breakdowns will occur, because public policy is often faulty and if they are severe enough, breakdowns may give rise to totalitarian regimes.
Open society is no longer threatened from the outside by a totalitarian ideology seeking world supremacy.
At one extreme, totalitarian doctrines would lead to state domination.
But this totalitarian blitzkrieg could not last.
But in a totalitarian regime such as Venezuela – and with Cuba calling the reform shots – it is hard to tell who is trapped in a war of attrition with whom.
He called his adoptive country the “Davos for internally bruised veterans of the totalitarian age.”
Of course, after the Holocaust, we must take seriously any mad and irrational declarations by totalitarian states.
As a leftist president with a leftist parliament would certainly undermine the road to capitalism and democracy; the longer Russia stayed on this road without detours, the less chance there would be for a semi-return to totalitarian power.
Believing the propaganda in a totalitarian state can be a form of self-preservation.
Life in a totalitarian dictatorship is a daily misery.
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