viernes, 6 de octubre de 2017

Plebistites, usually are weapons for totalitarianism.









Futhermore, totalitarian dictatorship has evolved a new pattern of methods and techniques. Behind a mask of plebiscites, popular elections, and occasional assembling of a so-called parliament- which listens and applauds but doesn’t really parley- the government actually functions through and with a single political party which comprises a minority, usually a small minority, of the nation, but which is more or less hand-picked, severely disciplined, and equipped with a monopoly of the means of influencing public opinión and enforcing the will of the dictator.

The novelty of totalitarianism in the History of Western civilitarion.
Carton J. H. Hayes
Proceedings of the American Philosophical, vol 82, n 1, february, 1940.
P 91-102


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