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Pierre Manent is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
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The history of twentieth-century European communist parties shows that extremists can be moderated by robust democratic institutions. Without them, however, the inclusion of extremist parties may undermine democracy.