The Dream of A Perfect Society
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Four Totalitarian Ideologies
– One Totalitarian Mentality?
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Khomeini and bin Laden are totalitarian thinkers. They bring to mind George Orwell’s 1984, a society where the state is almighty, where everyone is supervised. But totalitarian ideas are more than that: They are notions of breaking with the world as it is, and dreams of creating a better one. Trotskij viewed Communism as a society where the average person was like Aristotle, Goethe and Marx. The Islamist Sayyid Qutb – Osama bin Laden’s ideologist – wanted a society that gives all human beings a good life. This book reviews the similarities and differences between Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Islamism – what goals
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| Language | Foreign publisher |
|---|---|
| Russian | Progress-Tradition |
