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