 Such as society is not a utopian ideal, Popper argues, but an empirically realised form of social organisation which is in every respect superior to its (real or potential) totalitarian rivals. His strategy, however, is not merely to engage in a moral defence of the ideology of liberalism, but rather to show that totalitarianism is typically based upon historicist and holist presuppositions, and of demonstrating that these presuppositions are fundamentally incoherent.