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To: jbe who wrote (49244)	8/5/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Seems like they achieved their goal: the Soviet government withered away... In any event, the theoretical goal remained the disappearance of the state altogether...

To: jbe who wrote (49244)	8/5/1999 5:53:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I would say totalitarianism is impossible when the individual has unutterable rights against the state, and a material possibility to enforce their realization (by independent courts) and define totalitarianism as the assumption that the state's rule over the individual is total (= unlimited). In this aspect Nazi Germany and Eastern European Socialist/Communist states were equal, and even there was a lot of similarity in the means of totality-enforcement. Still they are not equal, and quite different in core aspects both practical and theoretical. It seems strange to me that TB seems to assert theoretical equality (in hi proof) when earlier he has already noted the main difference between both totalitarian systems and any democratic state. Ah now I see the way ...