All anti-liberal ideologies reject pluralism and therefore loathe political parties

Evidence

Every anti-liberal, antidemocratic ideology rejects political pluralism and its incarnation in political parties. We have already pointed out how populism identifies the one “true” people and rejects claims of belonging by others. Authoritarianism insists on a single, sovereign guiding will. Fascism glorifies one volk—the rest of the population is a contamination that must be excised for the health of the whole. Nationalism is commonly rooted in a single ethnic and cultural identity. Marxism sees one class, the proletariat, initiating the final emancipatory revolution. For holists of every stripe, political parties are a symptom of abhorrent divisions, and by their avowed partiality to a particular interest, opinion, principle, or ambition—a partiality confirmed by the existence of rival parties—they are abominable. Today’s conspiracist mind-set exhibits this loathing, and is antiparty as we will show. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 197

Categorization

• XREF: The spectrum of holism (populism, authoritarianism, fascism, Marxism) on the shared ground of party-loathing prefigures the book’s argument that conspiracism is the newest anti-party holism. — connects to: Those who reject pluralism find even open party rivalry anathema — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 198; Self-styled radical critics today are actually liberals in weak form — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 462
• SEED: Possible essay angle: tracing how otherwise opposed ideologies — Marxist and fascist — converge in treating party competition as synthetic division, challenging the assumption that left and right holisms have nothing structurally in common.

Broader Connections

• Those who reject pluralism find even open party rivalry anathema #expands (0.95) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 198
• Self-styled radical critics today are actually liberals in weak form #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 462