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totalitarian of, denoting, relating to, or characteristic of a dictatorial one-party state that regulates every realm of life How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Like totalitarians of all ideological stripes and mystics of all religions, painstaking thinkers of all cultures know each other intuitively across the boundaries of opposition. By blowing up Parliament, V symbolically accomplishes what all totalitarians seek--the destruction of legislative institutions intended to make government power subordinate to law and accountable to the people. Despite such stratagems, the requirement of public pragmatic empiricism serves us well in maintaining an open society--one in which minority worldviews are protected from ideological totalitarians. |
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