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Totalitarian democracy is a term made famous by Israeli historian J. L. Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government.〔Talmon, J.L. ''The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy.'' Britain: Secker & Warburg, 1960.〕 The phrase had previously been used by Bertrand de Jouvenel〔de Juvenal, Bertrand. ''On Power: Its Nature and the History of its Growth,'' Salt Lake City: Hutchinson, 1948.〕 and E.H. Carr,〔Carr, Edward Hallett. ''The Soviet Impact on the Western World''. New York: MacMillan Company, 1947.〕 and subsequently by F. William Engdahl〔Engdahl, F. William. ''Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.'' Boxboro, MA: Third Millennium Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9795608-6-6.〕 and Sheldon S. Wolin.〔Wolin, Sheldon S. ''Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism.'' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.〕 == Criticism of Rousseau's ideas == Talmon's 1952 book ''The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy'' discusses the transformation of a state in which traditional values and articles of faith shape the role of government into one in which social utility takes absolute precedence. His work is a criticism of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss philosopher whose ideas influenced the French Revolution. In ''The Social Contract'', Rousseau contends that the interests of the individual and the state are one and the same, and it is the state's responsibility to implement the "general will". The political neologism "messianic democracy" also derives from Talmon's introduction to this work: :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. () In a similar vein, Herbert Marcuse, in his 1964 book ''One-Dimensional Man'', describes a society in which, in his words, "…liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. … Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves..."〔(¶ 17 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Totalitarian democracy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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