Consolidated Western civil society blocks the Russian-style seizure of state power.
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- European states consolidated power through monopolizing violence and administration. (similarity 0.84)
- Russian Westernizers sought central power rather than democracy. (similarity 0.83)
- Western states rest on sturdy civil-society fortifications that survive state-level shocks (similarity 0.82)
- Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarian dictatorship rules its own country like a foreign conqueror (similarity 0.80)
- Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems (similarity 0.80)
- Statolatry must be criticised so civil society becomes self-governing and spontaneous (similarity 0.80)
- Modern society replaces stratification with juridification and democratization, both already overloading (similarity 0.79)
- Stalin reworked Leninist concepts around conspiracy as the epoch’s hallmark. (similarity 0.79)
- A ruling party exercises hegemonic power without formal juridical rule (similarity 0.79)
- In the West civil society is a sturdy fortress behind the state’s outer ditch (similarity 0.79)
- Failing to integrate masses into the state produces a stunted, dependent ruling class (similarity 0.79)
- Cohesion and trust check government power, not merely establish social order (similarity 0.79)
- Capitalism depends on a noncapitalist world whose possession is imperialism’s core project (similarity 0.78)
- Ideological scientificality overrides factual reality in totalitarian action (similarity 0.78)