There was a very interesting book review in the "Bookshelf" section of WSJ yesterday. The column (The Siren Call of Tyranny) discussed the book "Last Exit to Utopia" by famous French political philosopher Jean-Francois Revel.
I was fascinated by this thought : "The totalitarian phenomenon," Revel observed years ago, "is not to beunderstood without making an allowance for the thesis that someimportant part of every society consists of people who actively wanttyranny: either to exercise it themselves or—much more mysteriously—tosubmit to it."
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