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

Convince her its governments were evil, totalitarian, when in reality they were democratic?
The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
The totalitarian state does not recognize personal liberties for the individual.
The concept of private property in the totalitarian state is also at variance with the democratic concept of private property.
My point here is not so much to amplify the absurdity of Clark's uncritical invocation of what is, in fact, Foucault's own dramatization of Bentham's totalitarian phantasy.

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