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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: frankw1900 who wrote (18798)2/13/2002 11:32:48 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>>There is great similarity between that and islamism - they're both totalitarian.<<

Easier than that.

They both:

1) are anti-democracy;
2) are anti-capitalist;
3) are anti-petit bourgeois/middle class;
4) are opposed to the freedom of the press, religion, and association;
5) believe that life is a zero sum game (if you win then I lose);
6) are opposed to the free transmission of ideas, the free passage of persons; free trade;
7) extraordinarily punitive of those who don't agree with them
8) deny the worth of the individual outside the ideology.

Maybe all of the above are what you mean by "totalitarian" but I thought I'd be more specific.
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