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But we do all recognise that without that balance, in certain instances, absolutism can easily spill over into extremism.
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By paving the way for a national free market, absolutism fostered capitalism.
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Few today would hold any brief for a theory, such as Bodin's, serving to justify absolutism .
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Since the 1960s there has been a marked shift from moral absolutism to relativism.
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Some of the absolutism of the early days of social investing seems to have given way to a new pragmatic activism.
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The result would, at best, have been clerical absolutism , at worst, Communist takeover or civil war.
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The state bureaucracies created by eighteenth-century absolutism signified the arrival of a universal class pursuing a universal interest.
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The tendency to ethnic absolutism and the one-party residue have reinforced one another in the Yugoslav successor states.