12-30-2018, 12:14 AM
A reminder: the concept of 'democratic centralism', an oxymoron because the centralization of power in an entrenched political elite can never be democratic, makes democracy impossible except in the Marxist-Leninist concept of the absence of capitalist power or influence in political life. Supposedly the Communist Party is the sole voice of the People, and if one does not like that voice, then tough luck.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.