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Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom.
1. : centralized control by an autocratic authority. 2. : the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority. Synonyms. absolutism. autarchy. authoritarianism. autocracy. Caesarism. czarism. tsarism. tzarism. despotism. dictatorship. totalism. tyranny. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
Totalitarianism is best understood as any system of political ideas that is both thoroughly dictatorial and utopian. It is an ideal type of governing notion, and as such, it cannot be realised perfectly.
totalitarianism, Form of government that subordinates all aspects of its citizens’ lives to the authority of the state, with a single charismatic leader as the ultimate authority. The term was coined in the early 1920s by Benito Mussolini, but totalitarianism has existed throughout history throughout the world (e.g., Qin dynasty China).
The enormous complexity of The Origins of Totalitarianism arises from its interweaving of an understanding of the concept of totalitarianism with the description of its emergence and embodiment in Nazism and Stalinism.
Jan 1, 2023 · Totalitarianism is a new form of government falling into the general classification of dictatorship . . . a system in which technologically advanced instruments of political power are wielded without restraint by centralized leadership of an elite movement, for the purpose of effecting a total social revolution, including the conditioning of man...
Jul 27, 2006 · 1. Biographical Sketch. 2. Introduction. 3. Arendt’s Concept of Totalitarianism. 4. The Human Condition. 4.1 Arendt’s Conception of Modernity. 4.2 The Vita Activa: Labor, Work and Action. 4.3 Freedom, Natality and Plurality. 4.4 Action, Narrative, and Remembrance. 4.5 Action and the Space of Appearance. 4.6 Action and Power.
