If Stalinism were socialism, he reasoned, then the left would have to support it, despite its totalitarian features. |
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In a completely totalitarian collectivistic society, no one considers what the other individual might need. |
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Perhaps living in totalitarian Baghdad has left some of the press here with a case of Stockholm syndrome. |
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When a totalitarian communist dictatorship rises to power, it is quite another thing. |
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It is both a museum and a memorial to the thousands who experienced torture under two different totalitarian regimes in the subterranean cells. |
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These images of well-known totalitarian architecture are overlaid with hazy blue patinas. |
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However, much more paradoxical edicts were issued under the totalitarian regime. |
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The idyllic scenes and saccharine, sunshiny colors he favors belie the sinister underpinnings of totalitarian rule. |
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These are purposely put on in these totalitarian societies as of way of subverting the population. |
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They also launched media campaigns accusing the government of illegitimacy and totalitarian intentions. |
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That message is not only perniciously false, it is the hallmark of the totalitarian mindset. |
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Violent suppression and opinion monopoly are used by all totalitarian political systems for the purpose of perpetrating their immoral rule. |
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The author was, of course, the first to depict a totalitarian gerontocracy. |
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Despite many contemporary attempts to decentre the author, in a book like this you can't escape the totalitarian presence. |
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Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max. |
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It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime. |
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In fact, I suspect he'd go on an extended rant about how the evil totalitarian government was enslaving him and stealing his TV or some such. |
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He's brave, full of youthful indiscretion, but inevitably damaged by his childhood in a totalitarian state. |
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Her focus is very much on the centrality of terror to totalitarian regimes. |
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That fiction would be laughable were it not so dangerously resonant of totalitarian regimes against which this country once stood firm. |
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Every totalitarian regime makes war on religion precisely because it cannot abide any god besides itself. |
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Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control. |
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The radical injustice of early capitalism gave birth to the overcompensation of totalitarian communism. |
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Even the neocons, for all their viciousness and totalitarian gut instincts, sometimes show signs of taking their white man's burden seriously. |
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The current fear-mongering over Social Security springs from the same totalitarian impulse as motivated those who rattled sabers in the past. |
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My conviction is based not on wishful thinking, but on my experiences living in a totalitarian regime. |
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The debate is not about whether or not disobedience to law is justified in a totalitarian regime. |
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Taiwan is a full democracy and North Korea, like the PRC, is a communist totalitarian regime. |
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It was a nightmare world in which human individuality was subsumed under the might of totalitarian collectivism. |
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They believed that these residual symbols were embers of a totalitarian collectivism that also lay smoldering in the socialist state. |
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Celebrated as early-20th-century European liberals, they were, in fact, collectivists and forerunners of the totalitarian state. |
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Under totalitarian systems, the regimes are conservative, and aesthetic expression is rigidly controlled. |
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Indeed, unity is an indispensable plank in the doctrine of scientism, the philosophical underpinning of totalitarian regimes. |
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This highlights the continuing totalitarian assumptions of the state, despite liberalizations flowing from the marketization of the economy. |
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In a totalitarian regime or even an oligarchy we have a ruler, or a group of elites ruling over the masses. |
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The United States, he premonished, could not hope to remain an island of democracy in a totalitarian sea. |
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Every attempt to turn back the time and, furthermore, to restore totalitarian communism is absurd. |
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In contrast, 19th century poorhouses burst at the seams, and their regimes became more totalitarian in response. |
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The main thoroughfare there is Midsummer Boulevard, or H6, if you prefer the totalitarian grid system peculiar to the area. |
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It is an imperialist, irredentist, totalitarian state that will use any means to get its way. |
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Like all corporations, media companies are essentially totalitarian institutions subject to a strict, top-down hierarchy of control. |
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The counterpart is used only in totalitarian states or military dictatorships. |
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It is also, however, an approach that can be, and has been, misused by totalitarian regimes. |
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Everywhere that people lived under totalitarian dictatorships, they felt he was one of them. |
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The Romanian Revolution was the most dramatic of a wave of uprisings that ended totalitarian rule throughout Eastern Europe. |
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It is characteristic of totalitarian regimes to try to prevent private initiatives in education. |
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For it came into a world previously marked by despotism, by tyranny, by totalitarian control. |
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The United States should not pull out of the U.N. because it elevates totalitarian governments to positions of leadership, though it has. |
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We usually connect propaganda to totalitarian regimes and undemocratic societies. |
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The legislation clears the way for practices commonly identified with totalitarian regimes. |
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They were not seen as an important force that could potentially undermine totalitarian regimes from within. |
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These are simply obstacles in his drive for an absolute autocracy and totalitarian power. |
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First of all, we all know the difference between a totalitarian regime and a democracy. |
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Previously, they had not just a dictatorial government, but in many ways a totalitarian government and leader. |
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In its more moderated and diffused form it blamed the absence of democracy in totalitarian regimes not on the dictators but on the democracies. |
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The best way to rid the world of totalitarian regimes is to show their citizens what the rest of the world is really like. |
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Maybe years of living under totalitarian dictatorships left them no choice but to live large in whatever small ways they can. |
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More often, in fact, they are foot soldiers of totalitarian regimes and of mob rule. |
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A common method for totalitarian regimes to maintain control is to militarize society and set it on a constant war footing. |
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In Spain we did have a period of transition from a totalitarian regime to a democracy, just like you. |
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They have been seen as fascist Big Brothers by twentieth century thinkers worried about totalitarian states. |
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He was a kindly man with much sympathy for refugees from totalitarian countries, whose misdirection of science he detested. |
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We've closed our eyes to the plight of those living in totalitarian or theocratic oppression. |
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The fact remains that brute force is boastfully invoked alike in the internal affairs and foreign policies of the totalitarian state. |
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The citizenry of totalitarian or violently dictatorial states have no legitimate means to discharge this fear. |
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Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly. |
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And when Strauss is mentioned in the press, he is typically described as a great defender of liberal democracy against totalitarian tyranny. |
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If we take RBC seriously, the sin of totalitarian nations who restrict people's movements lies simply in not being imaginative enough. |
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I believe that this type of sledgehammer approach to address populist fears about terrorism is totally disgusting and bordering on totalitarian. |
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With the development of mass media and computers such future fascist regimes would have new totalitarian capacities. |
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Why bother, ask many commentators, expending moral indignation on a totalitarian dictator who is universally despised? |
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Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather. |
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They welcomed the fall of the Wall and the implosion of the totalitarian regime. |
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We were there, like Wilsonian idealists, to protect the South against the totalitarian regime of the North and its Vietcong allies. |
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People bury themselves in a totalitarian cause that treats people as mere cogs, or else nasty grit, in a mighty and holy machine. |
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Highly constrained genomes such as those of birds represent the opposite extreme, in which the subgenomic populace suffers under a totalitarian regime. |
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Kundera was reacting against the efforts of 20th-century totalitarian regimes to refashion novelists as propagandists. |
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Biographer Andrew Roberts argues that history has maligned Napoleon by lumping him in with totalitarian thugs. |
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One has to admit that a totalitarian empire is impossible without the Iron Curtain or a system of complete information isolation. |
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This safety valve allows citizens to sound the alarm and challenge those whose views are hateful and totalitarian. |
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Once they came to power they turned to totalitarian dictatorships. |
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In some cases, a republic may be a dictatorial or totalitarian state. |
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Eschewing the model of the totalitarian monolith, Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs. |
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Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. |
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But because they have lived through colonial and totalitarian regimes, they are untrusting and contemptuous of those impressive-sounding grand narratives. |
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In the 1990s, one of the big errors was to read the coming century as if the principle danger to humanity would be overmighty totalitarian states. |
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Would you draw a parallel between the socio-economic development of Bulgaria and Spain in the transition period between totalitarian governing and democracy? |
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The stunning tropical paradise has been transformed into a brutal totalitarian dictatorship where violations of fundamental human rights are commonplace. |
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In a society seeking moral footing after 50 years of totalitarian rot, he found these public manners personally appalling and potentially combustible. |
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For years referenda were discredited in the public mind by plebiscites organized by totalitarian governments which inevitably produced a gratifying majority. |
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In an age of 30-second political advertisements, truthful speech remains as meaningful to democracies as it is to inveighing against totalitarian regimes. |
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It was a call to arms for democrats faced with a totalitarian threat. |
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Densely argued and beautifully written, this play reminds us that remaining human in the face of totalitarian oppression is a triumph that cannot be snatched away. |
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Rather, for totalitarian movements, as he understood them, mass murder became the only manifestation of the sacred possible in a completely desacralized cosmology. |
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They smack of totalitarian despotism, and their quaint claim for absolute certainty seems anachronistic in this postmodern age of relativism and deconstruction. |
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As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West. |
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In this battle of minds the most urgent task is to throw a spotlight on an organisation which has, for too long, been able to disguise its true totalitarian nature. |
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Indeed, history has shown us just how much of a threat schlocky Hollywood entertainment is to totalitarian governments. |
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This jihadist document reflects the totalitarian mind at work. |
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Betts seeks to look behind the accepted view of the failed communist state as a totalitarian nightmare in the grips of the infamous Stasi. |
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As emperor, Domitian assumed totalitarian characteristics, thought he could be a new Augustus, and tried to make a personal cult of himself. |
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The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova is assessing the activity of the communist totalitarian regime. |
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Twentieth century totalitarian movements, especially the Fascists and Communists, crushed the Freemasons. |
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We will avoid all those things that led to feudalization, concentration of power, and totalitarian rule. |
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Russia is now ruled by a duumvirate, one of whom has a KGB background and who reinstated a form of totalitarian rule. |
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The PIRG activists long for a green totalitarian who would issue diktats about which cars could be built, ostensibly to save fuel. |
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The rise of totalitarian states is the subject of British writer George Orwell. |
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In the end, the oligarchic regimes are transformed into totalitarian or authoritarian regimes and administrations. |
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They claim that this kind of domestication demands a totalitarian relationship with both the land and the plants and animals being domesticated. |
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This secret service was overseen by the Directorate of Ceremonial, hence this state organ's often totalitarian affiliation. |
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Significantly, the author does not stop after discussing the criminal menticidal tactics of totalitarian states. |
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This is held to be the first explanation of the modern concept of totalitarian state. |
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Generally political attacks on private schools have been opposed by concern that there should be no totalitarian state control of education. |
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The totalitarian system on this planet is now ending, declining, so, how powerful People's Republic of China, they have to go along with the world. |
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Domitian's government nonetheless exhibited totalitarian characteristics. |
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When I was a child, the world was a totalitarian state run by adults. |
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Rule by a totalitarian government is characterised by a highly centralised and coercive authority that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. |
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It is believed that the vast amounts of wealth were largely stored away in palace treasuries by totalitarian monarchs prior to the British take over. |
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Each paid homage to the late Vaclav Havel, a hero of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled totalitarian Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia. |
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She arose in an era of competing totalitarian ideologies and declared that communism and Nazism were not opposites but evil twins, and that their true opposite was freedom. |
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Germany was now a totalitarian state with Hitler at its head. |
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