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The gap between the theoretical and the concrete has plagued utopian political thought for ages. Efforts to make heaven on earth inevitably run into the inconvenient truth first articulated by Immanuel Kant and popularized by Isiah Berlin: "Out of the crooked timbers of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

According to Berlin, all philosophical attempts to manifest the ideal society — from Plato's Republic, to Jean-Jacque Rousseau's concept of the General Will, to Karl Marx's vision of the end of history — unwittingly contain within them the germ of totalitarianism.