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The rise of totalitarianism book6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Revolution was not merely a political overturn, but one that held a promise for the future-otherwise it was Reaction. ![]() ![]() Progress was the movement of time, not merely from the known to the unknown, but from the worse to the better it contained within itself the fact of change and the positive evaluation inevitably accruing to it. Traditionally, all of these terms have been summary evocations of a world-view. But conservatism can afford, in principle, to fall back on a stubborn and mindless balking, whereas liberalism is committed to the general idea and the reasoned program, and its crisis is therefore the more poignant.Īmong the key words of modern liberalism that now ring somewhat hollow are Progress, Revolution, and Liberty. It is true that this is also the problem of conservatism, and to a more extreme degree our technological society is moving with a resolution that scornfully converts all conservative phraseology into romantic cant. The problem of liberalism today is essentially the problem of a surviving rhetoric and a crumbling philosophy. ![]()
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