Totalitarian movements justify present terror by reckoning in millennia rather than generations

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• Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines (similarity 0.86)
• Totalitarian movements’ rank-and-file dissolved class divisions via shared fear (similarity 0.85)
• Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideological scientificality overrides factual reality in totalitarian action (similarity 0.83)
• The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian dictatorship rules its own country like a foreign conqueror (similarity 0.81)
• Totalitarian leaders use humanitarian cliches freely once extermination is underway (similarity 0.81)
• A shared dehumanizing logic links War on Terror crusades across hemispheres (similarity 0.80)
• A remarkably uniform anti-Saracen ideology persisted through centuries like a catechism (similarity 0.80)
• Crises lasting decades reveal incurable structural contradictions that resisting forces work to mend. (similarity 0.80)
• American society explains rare Muslim terror through religion itself (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian intelligentsia’ means a unified, all-absorbing intellectual stratum, not a despotism (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.80)
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.79)
• Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.79)