But the arbitrariness, the unintelligibility, the absolute mysteriousness of totalitarianism are essential to Berman's larger argument. |
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Is it better to classify Nazism and Stalinism together as examples of totalitarianism? |
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He saw himself primarily as a political writer, a democratic socialist who avoided party labels and hated totalitarianism. |
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The only kinds of writers excluded were supporters and apologists of totalitarianism. |
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As the strongest military power for the foreseeable future, they must play an active role in fighting tyranny, totalitarianism, and terror. |
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The old opposition has been replaced by a civil war between Stalinist totalitarianism and democratic socialism. |
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The collapse of communism in 1989 brought to light new evidence of the horrors of Stalinism, and gave totalitarianism a new lease of life. |
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For the red-baiters, American movies represented a totalitarianism creeping in from without. |
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Italian fascism was very distinctive from National Socialism, and neither resembled Japanese totalitarianism. |
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Benedict's experience of Nazism led him to a fear not of absolutism but of totalitarianism, in which authority and truth are divorced. |
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Yet from 1941 he found the Trot temperament to be almost indistinguishable from the Stalinist one and fled that totalitarianism also. |
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Thirty years of totalitarianism reduced people's capacity to think, producing a society in love with its own enslavement. |
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It is a symbolical play aimed at the vices of capitalism and totalitarianism and rekindling the personal spirit. |
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They unlock the secret to how a seemingly normal country can find itself plunged into nationalist totalitarianism. |
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The democratic left should never again allow itself to be led by the supporters of totalitarianism. |
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Nationalizing the airline industry is a far cry from comprehensive economic planning and totalitarianism. |
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Passionate and principled democrats were slow to recognise the dangers posed by totalitarianism 60 years ago. |
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In a world where totalitarianism is all too present, globalization fosters democracy. |
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I want increased liberty, equality and fraternity, not a diminution of democracy as we are tiptoed into totalitarianism and authoritarianism. |
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Some compared it to sneaking totalitarianism, and they asked what other unalienable rights would soon disappear. |
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Global warming will define this century, just as the struggle between totalitarianism and democracy defined the last one. |
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Their essays denounced those writers who had retreated into moral and political evasions or pure aestheticism under the pressures of totalitarianism. |
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And when modern democracies turn technical thought into a separate domain, those modern democracies incline toward totalitarianism. |
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Acceptance of utopia's unattainability, in other words, is the best insurance against totalitarianism. |
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Vietnam has endured one hundred years of colonization, sixty five years of fratricidal war, and several decades of totalitarianism. |
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It is utterly inconsistent with the American ideal to attempt to fasten procedures of totalitarianism on American constitutional self-governance. |
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We should rather be fighting against the procedures of totalitarianism because slavery is wrong. |
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Businesses are now aware: the people of the world have not agreed that the technology of totalitarianism should be fastened on every household. |
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Thanks to these heroic efforts, where once there was totalitarianism, we now see free people living in a free nation. |
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Schwartz says this merger of extremist ideology and absolute state was the first example of totalitarianism. |
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If we do not do this, Europe will be threatened by another explosion of totalitarianism. |
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But they have transformed common reference points and reduced the political space occupied by totalitarianism all over the world. |
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Otherwise, it should rather be regarded as merely a form of devious totalitarianism. |
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Hoping that the time of totalitarianism will ends soon and that the time of prosperity and freedom will come for Vietnam. |
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Politicians in regimes of decaying totalitarianism used nationalism as a means of clinging to power. |
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Generations of people around the world have endured autocracy and dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy and even anarchy without knowing freedom. |
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What they all had in common was that they weren't particularly democratic, being variations either on autocracy or on bureaucratic totalitarianism. |
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What in their history do they find inconsistent with totalitarianism, or at best statism, or at worst Marxism? |
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Although her story is extraordinary, it is also representative of an entire dark age in Russian totalitarianism. |
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People have forgotten what totalitarianism looks like, because they became obsessed with George W. Bush. |
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Our monocratic leader seems anxious to take us into a potential totalitarianism which could become what, in 1939-45, men, women and children suffered for and died to resist. |
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Of course there were heroic modernist artists and writers who opposed twentieth-century totalitarianism, and classicists and traditionalists who supported totalitarianism. |
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Gunn's later works in the 1940s and into the 1950s became concerned with issues of totalitarianism. |
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They also represented extensive critiques of the philosophical presuppositions underpinning all forms of totalitarianism. |
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He argued that this view is the principal theoretical presupposition underpinning most forms of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. |
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Aristotle's implicit totalitarianism rests ultimately on a questionable inference from a metaphysical untruism. |
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When a society issues arbitrary laws that reject the primacy of natural law, the result is not only the risk of social chaos and disorder but, as the 20th century witnessed, a potential basis for state totalitarianism. |
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The breaking down of totalitarianism and the consequent re-establishment of democracy has brought with it a lack of appreciation of values and objective truth. |
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The experience we carry into the third millennium is an experience of the rise and fall of colonial powers and ideological, political and social totalitarianism. |
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It is interesting that both totalitarianism and industrialism were parodied at the time by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times and The Great Dictator respectively. |
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In the same way that poker ritualizes capitalism and North Korea's mass games ritualize totalitarianism, the people's mike ritualizes horizontalism. |
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Yet its implicit focus is resistance to all forms of social control, including the soft totalitarianism of present-day mass democracy. |
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For Arendt the nature of totalitarianism is the starting point for chastened political thought. |
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But in the past 10 years, after the morality of freedom was withdrawn, the state has begun fastening the procedures of totalitarianism on the substance of democratic society. |
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For almost everyone who lived through the 20th century – at least its middle half – the idea that freedom was consistent with the procedures of totalitarianism was self-evidently false. |
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Hence, as we watch responses to Snowden's revelations we see that massive invasion of privacy triggers justified anxiety among the survivors of totalitarianism about the fate of liberty. |
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In both cases, anyone with a lack of arguments on the matter at issue will forget the principles of rationalism and flirt with the irrational, which is the precursor to any type of totalitarianism or Stalinism. |
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The desire to set himself up in opposition to God and to combat every form of religion showed itself in an overbearing way also in atheistic and Communist totalitarianism. |
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All citizens of the free world and especially those of us who come from the part of Europe that endured Communism's iron rule, have a special calling to combat totalitarianism and contempt for human rights. |
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Assy locates Arendt's emergent interest in ethics in her writing on totalitarianism and on Eichmann as a representative of totalitarianism. |
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Vargas Llosa saw the threat of totalitarianism in the rigid state-driven economy and the nationalizations imposed by the ruling American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. |
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We all of us here have in mind the haunting image of those specialists between the wars who were so easily seduced by the temptations of extremism, racism and totalitarianism. |
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Villeglé thus emerged from the years of war as a young man already familiar with the spiritual poverty that the temptation to totalitarianism had imposed on occupied France. |
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When natural law and the responsibility it entails are denied this dramatically paves the way to ethical relativism at the individual level and to totalitarianism of the State at the political level. |
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The convocation of the first synodal assembly for Europe took place following the fall of totalitarianism, fostering at that time the new living conditions which now provide the basis for calling this second synodal assembly. |
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His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. |
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During the 1930s Paris became the host to artists from Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries affected by the rise of totalitarianism. |
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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism as I understand it. |
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Severus attempted to revive totalitarianism and in an address to people and the Senate, he praised the severity and cruelty of Marius and Sulla, which worried the senators. |
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