Editing Totalitarian democracy (section)

==Definition==
{{anchor|Messianic democracy}}
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In his 1952 book ''The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy,'' Talmon argued that the totalitarian and liberal types of democracy emerged from the same premises during the eighteenth century. He regarded the conflict between these two types of democracy as of world-historical importance:

:Indeed, from the vantage point of the mid-twentieth century the history of the last hundred and fifty years looks like a systematic preparation for the headlong collision between empirical and liberal democracy on the one hand, and totalitarian Messianic democracy on the other, in which the world crisis of to-day consists.

The [[political neologism]] '''messianic democracy'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (also '''political messianism'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->)<ref>J. L. Talmon, ''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4476072W/Political_Messianism?edition=key%3A/books/OL5800726M Political Messianism – The Romantic Phase]'', 1960.</ref> also derives from Talmon's introduction to this work.