Rousseau's work was championed by the likes of Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant in that echoes of Rousseau can be seen consistently throughout Critique of Pure Reason by Kant and the Communist Manifesto by Marx. By that measure and from all which followed in the wake of Rousseau, his ideas about the corruption of the pure human by the evils of society, coupled with the "general will" philosophy of domination of the few by the many are clearly totalitarian in nature and fringe thought. With that being stated, Rousseau would have been more in favor of a direct democracy rather than a representative democracy or a republic as the "general will" would be easier to impose upon those who were elected by a vote by vote tally of the true majority. However,
