Sheldon Wolin - Politics and Vision (1960)

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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.

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