Paradise and Utopia

From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft

April 3, 2026
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In this episode, Fr. John describes how ideological world building created not only a hard totalitarianism in the Communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union, but a perceivable "soft" totalitarianism in the liberal democracy of Cold War Western Europe and America.

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