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Quote from Ronald Wintrobe,


"There is little to be feared from the standard picture of a totalitarian society in which 'cogs,' who are watched by Big Brother or his equivalent, carry out orders emanating from the top. Such a society would collapse in inefficiency. What is infinitely more fearsome is the capacity of a dictatorship to use the principle of competition to organize terror and murder."


By:

Ronald Wintrobe (more quotes by Ronald Wintrobe or books by/about Ronald Wintrobe)

Source:

The Political Economy of Dictatorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 328.

Categories:

Bureaucracy, Despotism, Fascism, NWO, Statism, Totalitarian, Petition

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