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Totalitarianism, it turned out, was less total in practice than in theory.
That's one of the swift tricks of totalitarianism: it outlaws religion, then anoints itself the shiny new god.
Kroliki i udavy (1982; Rabbits and Boa Constrictors) is an allegory that comments satirically on totalitarianism; it has been compared to George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Rather than describing the formative experience for Orwell's vision of totalitarianism it may, instead, have been a description itself formed by that vision.
But Mr. Berman's most important argument -- and one that helps make this compact, focused book one of the most challenging accounts of the post-9/11 world -- is that the war on terror doesn't just resemble the war on totalitarianism, it is literally a continuation of it.
To effect the American brand of totalitarianism, it is imperative for Trump to win the court of popular opinion — at least initially.
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The struggle against totalitarianism, wherever it comes from, no matter what shape it takes, is a common battle.
From its beginnings, the novel has been the most democratic and bourgeois of all art forms; it has almost always failed in the service of programmatic politics, let alone totalitarianism, because it grows from what Vargas Llosa calls, in his memoir, the "sordid warp and woof of which daily life is woven for the majority of mortals".
His new film, Elysium, pursues similar themes of class, xenophobia, greed and totalitarianism, but it's altogether more conventional in conception and muddled in its narrative.
(The generic "totalitarianism" replaced it).
And that is why, he added, "I hate totalitarianism because it taught me to hate".
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