War and the Rise of the State by Bruce D. Porter

Author:Bruce D. Porter [Porter, Bruce D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

These six features derived in part from the pervasive sense of struggle, sacrifice, and threat that characterized totalitarianism in all its forms. Indeed, totalitarian leaders have always conceived of themselves as more than simply state leaders, their parties as more than mere political organizations, the states under their control as far more than ordinary states. The leaders were prophets, warriors, demigods. The parties were causes, campaigns, world movements. The states were bastions for waging crusades on ideological infidels and for propagating the New Utopia abroad. Militant, militaristic, and militarized, the totalitarian states were eternally at war.9

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