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Totalitarianism :black_flag: Logic and tradition of totalitarian thought…
Totalitarianism
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Logic and tradition of totalitarian thought
What is it?
a type of political regime
open terror
ideological manipulation
How does it differ from autocracy or authoritarianism?
politicize every aspect of social and personal existence
When did it emerge?
20th century
ideological roots?
antiquity
the need of total subordination of the part to the whole
Who detailed descriptions are provided by?
Plato
T More
T Campanella
Saint-Simon
J J Rousseau
Later
K Marx
V Lenin
F Nitzsche
Important works: The Road to Serfdom (F Hayek)
The origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt)
What do totalitarian concepts share?
a common
logic
Berdyaev: politicization of utopia
In which form is totalitarian utopia presented?
an ideology
justifies collective action
The further logic of the formation
What does comprehensive planning need?
a reliable guarantee for the implementation (mass support)
How is it ensures?
Growth of institutions of power and social control
ideological treatment of the population
What happens at the same time?
any form of dissidence is suppressed
Why?
no single ideology - no mass obedience
no individual freedom is permitted
Why?
threatens the unity of the whole
How are general goals realised?
through economic and social planning