The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy

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The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy is a book by historian J. L. Talmon which critiques Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophy of union between individual and state as effective totalitarianism with only the illusion of democracy.

Indeed, from the vantage point of the mid twentieth century the history of the last hundred and fifty years looks like a systematic preparation for the headlong collision between empirical and liberal democracy on the one hand, and totalitarian Messianic democracy on the other, in which the world crisis of to-day consists. - J. L. Talmon [1]