[Dumb_Ox]

You don't appear to have been around at the time, but Science, Politics, and Gnosticism was discussed over on the Insights into Totalizing Ideologies thread.

A few more Voegelin FR threads are listed HERE

I've checked out The New Science of Politics and plan to mine it once I've finished Herodotus.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"...Insights on Totalizing Ideologies."

Thanks. You are correct that I was not a regular cyber-surfer on freerepublic.com at that time. Sorry I missed the discussion. There's a dissertation I have lying around here somewhere on approaches to totalitarianism offered by Voegelin, Arendt, and Strauss. I think it was presented at Claremont. Not sure. I'll have to check. Interesting and exotic topic. Depth psychology also has some things to say on the subject. At any rate, totalitarianism seems to function much like a religion. An exhaustive, albeit secular, mythology claiming to explain all of reality through its own categories, symbols, and ideas.