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Totalitarian route to address social diversities and to deal with the opposition proved its effectiveness on a number of occasions in the twentieth century. Coupled with the ideology, which manifested goals were to build free, democratic, just, and prosperous society, such an approach opened wide possibilities for its practitioners to transcend national border(s) and to create a genuinely global system. Among modern political theories, only National-Socialism openly repudiated concepts of freedom and democracy, which, no doubt, contributed greatly to its speedy demise. Both the Communists and the Neoliberals demonstrated a much higher level of sophistication; freedom and democracy were declared sacrosanct and firmly integrated in a better world they promised to build. The benefits of a perfect society greatly outweighed enormous human and material sacrifices that had to be made in order to build it. On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs (One can't expect to make an omelet without breaking eggs). Those words of Maximilian Robespierre reverberated throughout the last couple of centuries and found numerous followers and disciples. The invariable result of their social experiments was the abundance of broken eggs and scarcity of omelets.

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