It also differs from totalitarianism, however, since authoritarian governments usually have no highly developed guiding ideology, tolerate some pluralism in social organization, lack the power to mobilize the entire population in pursuit of national goals, and exercise power within relatively predictable limits.
It also differs from totalitarianism, however, since authoritarian governments usually have no highly developed guiding ideology, tolerate some pluralism in social organization, lack the power to mobilize the entire population in pursuit of national goals, and exercise that power within relatively predictable limits.
Neither party tolerates political pluralism.
The denial of Mr. Liu's appeal marks the third judicial setback this week for activists in China and the latest signal that China's leaders remain leery of tolerating greater pluralism.
While Vietnam's government has allowed freer expression in recent years, it does not tolerate calls for pluralism or loosening of the Communist Party's monopoly on power.
The replacement of communism in Poland by (as he saw it) a soggy liberalism which, under the guise of "pluralism", tolerated pornography, permissiveness and abortion did not seem to him much of an improvement.
Although circumstances sometimes made accommodation to political liberalism necessary, fascists condemned this doctrine for placing the rights of the individual above the needs of the Volk, encouraging "divisiveness" (i.e., political pluralism), tolerating "decadent" values, and limiting the power of the state.
Pluralism was not tolerated.
Whatever the anti-monopoly law might enjoin and the public interest in pluralism might require, Thatcher would tolerate no defence of competition when the would-be press monopolist was her faithful flak.
The pluralism that a society must tolerate, however, is limited, according to Rawls, by a requirement of reasonableness that is, the requirement that citizens do not seek to impose their own conception of the good on others who do not share it.
