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  • It used to be that what were called cults, what cult experts now mostly call "totalist" or "high demand" groups, were aberrant (sorry for the lousy sentence construction, I'm in a hurry this morning).

    Women's Space 2008

  • 'totalist' (or 'wholist' or 'participatory') form of socialism in Venezuela by giving citizens greater authority in deciding the political, economic, and social affairs of the country or, conversely, inhibit the progress of socialist development vis-à-vis factional infighting and political disorganization (which can, as we recently saw in the 2008 elections, at least indirectly translate into gains for opposition parties), no one can be entirely certain.

    Venezuela Analysis 2009

  • The only reason I can think of is to convince the dull-witted that “economics” is somehow purely mechanical and subject to manipulation by totalist maniacs and does not concern living and breathing free human beings with a natural right to their own life. rapier says:

    Matthew Yglesias » A Crisis of Demand, Not Productivity 2010

  • We on the liberal side must avoid becoming as absolutist and totalist as our opponents on the Right.

    Biden In South Carolina: "I Need The Republican Party To Get Back Up" 2009

  • And Jeep was a totalist collector of comic books and music memorabilia, everything from posters to lunch boxes, to cardboard stand-up figures.

    Detroit Rock History In 'A-Square' 2008

  • I think we will witness (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the totalist action of the peace camp and moderation of the rise of (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

    CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2003 2003

  • HASSAN ASFOUR, PALESTINIAN CABINET MINISTER: They have Israeli totalist organization now created by the Israeli government, compiled from the settlers.

    CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Arab League Shows Strong Support for Arafat - October 21, 2000 2000

  • They are people like Paul Glanville and Mike Carriker, who lost their wives and children after leaving a church in rural Washington state that they describe as a “Christian totalist group” and an “abusive, authoritarian cult.”

    Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation 2000

  • They had been "comrades," a bond they had thought more exalted – fused in a totalist enterprise that they thought surpassed such bourgeois claptrap as trustworthiness.

    Goodbye, Mr. Hitchens, and Enjoy Your Betrayal of a Journalist Pal 1999

  • York, while no doubt an admirable, value-neutral, scholarly effort, implicates her as being at least sympathetic to the goals if not the methods of a movement that has included a totalist as well as a democratic element.

    Antiwar.com Original 2010

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