This reminds me of something Slavoj Žižek often likes to bring up. > In the Stalinist ideological imaginary, universal reason is objectivised in the guise of t

This reminds me of something Slavoj Žižek often likes to bring up. > In the Stalinist ideological imaginary, universal reason is objectivised in the guise of the inexorable laws of historical progress, and we are all its servants, the leader included. A Nazi leader, having delivered a speech, stood and silently accepted the applause, but under Stalinism, when the obligatory applause exploded at the end of the leader’s speech, he stood up and joined in.