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Modernity, Libertarianism and Critical Theory: Reply to Pellicani

Sociological Speculations and Political Opportunism

The impact of the end of the Cold War has yet to be felt in the social sciences which, by and large, opportunistically continue to defend the viability of theoretically useless constructs whose popularity has nothing to do with incisiveness or coherence but, rather, with their historical role in providing political legitimacy for particular regimes. There is no better example of this than the concept of "totalitarianism."¹ It was first crafted by Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini in the mid-1920s to describe a fascism that never fit the proposed definition; subsequently it was elaborated by...