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totalitarianism
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He claims that movement conservatives also suffer from the totalitarian temptation, so that we are "all" fascists now.
On the one hand, we see the totalitarian temptation, the desire to standardize and to unify a gigantic space and population, to centralize power and to mobilize the masses through pseudo-mythological ideology and through fear and, if necessary, terror.
Revel's books Without Marx or Jesus and How Democracies Perish are modern classics, as is The Totalitarian Temptation, whose title epitomizes one of the most virulent moral pathologies of our time.
 
 
 
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