“Recall that democratic regimes in an exchange society are at one corner of the political triangle while totalitarian regimes with the coercive society they have constructed are at another. They therefore are at opposing ends of one side of the triangle, which is a continuum ranging from Freedom to Power.”

— Rudolph Rummel

Source: Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence(1997), p. 204

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