The Transformation of the Totalitarian Into a Persecutor

A society is moving in the direction of a violent political persecution, writes Arthur Verslouis. Key to this transformation into the role of a persecutor is a set of doctrines that one holds to be absolute or universal truth," he says. From this point it is not far to persecuting the recalcitrant and rationalizing even mass murder under the guise of the greater good", adds Versloui.