Democratic and Totalitarian Projects: Problems and Contradictions

Abstract

A comparative analysis of democratic and totalitarian social projects examines the contradictions associated with democratic and totalitarian regimes. It is argued that the main contradiction of the totalitarian regime — the orientation of society toward the full realization of the social ideal — in practice turns out to be a total suppression of the individual and his freedoms. In turn, the contradiction of the democratic regime is associated with the manipulative nature of governance, which in practice manifests itself in the dissemination of deliberately illusory social projects.