The politics of the millennium

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ID4086392
AuthorsThomas Flanagan (University of Calgary, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume7
Issue3
Pages164-175
Publication date1995-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09546559508427310
OpenAlexW2016022751
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited20

Politics involves conflict within the community for control over the community; it also involves conflict among communities. In either case, it provokes anxiety to which the vision of a conflict‐free millennium is a response. There are three broad types of politics ‐ monism (administration, populism, totalitarianism); dualism (total war, class or race struggle); pluralism (liberal democracy, constitutional regimes). Millenarian movements are monistic in their view of the future but dualistic in their view of the present. If, as most political scientists hold, complex societies are inherently pluralistic, millenarian projects are bound to be infeasible (utopianism) or to eventuate in high levels of force in an effort to transform reality (totalitarianism)

Democracy · Democratization · Dualism · Epistemology · Millenarianism · Monism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Social science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions

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