Liberal Totalitarism: The Foundation of the Conceptual Synthesis
The article is devoted to the problem of transformation of the ideology and practices of the globalist ultra-liberalism in the socio-political model of liberal totalitarianism. The first signs of the Western system evolution in that direction were noted and described by A.I. Solzhenitsyn when delivering the commencement address at Harvard University. The author of the article offers a review of the bibliography on the problem that highlights the key approaches of a number of authors, representing different niches of the political spectrum. As part of the review the author determines the connection of liberal totalitarianism with the phenomenon of pseudo-science, institutions of global superpower, the ideology of anti-morality, sophistical discourse of postmodernism, as well as the implementation of the new totalitarian model, consisting in the transition from the constant and sophisticated consciousness manipulation technology to the spiritual and physical dehumanization. On the basis of the synthesis of the foreign and domestic philosophy achievements and original practices, the author distinguishes a wide range of the specific characters of the liberal totalitarianism model that can serve as conceptual and methodological basis for the modern political regimes classification.