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But there is a corollary to this insight.
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The regime is always something particular.
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It stands in a relation of opposition to other regime types,
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and as a consequence the possibility of conflict, of tension,
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and war is built in to the very structure of politics.
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Regimes are necessarily partisan, that is to say
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they instill certain loyalties and passions
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in the same way that one may feel partisanship
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to the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox,
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or to Yale over all rival colleges and institutions, right?
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Fierce loyalty partisanship:it is inseparable
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from the character of regime politics.