I stand corrected, Jim. Nice post. I'll opt for 'bureaucratic centralism' then, and stick with my 'contingent great man theory'. Rob. >So the totalitarianism theory, along with Stalinism, belongs in the >waste-basket of history, not only because it was a crude ideology >justifying the Cold War but also because it is incoherent as a theory and >doesn't fit the empirical facts. All societies with a ruling class >(including bureaucratic socialism and capitalism) have contradictions, so >that there are internal reasons to reject their immortality.
