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While the versions of totalitarianism represented by Nazism and Fascism consolidated power by suppressing liberal political practices that had sunk only shallow cultural roots, Superpower represents a drive towards totality that draws from the setting where liberalism and democracy have been established for more than two centuries. It is Nazism turned upside-down, inverted totalitarianism. While it is a system that aspires to totality, it is driven by an ideology of the cost-effective rather than of a master race (Herrenvolk), by the material rather than the ideal.

Sheldon Wolin

Sheldon Wolin

Sheldon Wolin

Born: August 4, 1922

Died: October 21, 2015 (aged 93)

Bio: Sheldon S. Wolin was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics.

Known for:

Politics and Vision (1960)
Democracy Incorporated (2008)
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
The presence of the past (1989)

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