When Hannah Arendt completed her work The Origins of Totalitarianism‚ she essentially took a historical approach for her analysis. The stories of Nazism and Stalinism exhibited the power of reorienting the mass for political purpose. However‚ her work foreshadowed what happened 15 years later in China -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The key elements reappeared and constituted another experiment of pushing the regime to be totalitarian. I argue that the influence of mass and the strategy
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Authoritarianism and Democracy in Rentier States Bachar EL-Halabi International Political economy Dr. Khalil Gebara Friday December 21‚ 2012 Introduction We can never understand politics until we begin to understand the flow of political‚ economical and social events that occur on a daily basis in our country and the countries surrounding us. For instance‚ Lebanon experienced the first form of rebellion on March 14‚ 2005 during a historical rally that ousted the Syrian regime‚ from
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Totalitarianism Destroys Humanity Totalitarianism is a form of government that is ruled by a leader who possesses absolute power and permits no privacy and freedom among its citizens. Countries that practice totalitarian government have unhappy citizens because the government has complete control of their lives‚ like Oceania in Orwell’s novel‚ 1984. Totalitarianism is harmful because it dehumanizes citizens in so many ways and as a result‚ it only leads to human extinction
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Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the most important‚ unique and influential thinkers of political philosophy in the Twentieth century. Arendt was greatly influenced by her mentor and one time lover‚ Martin Heidegger‚ whose phenomenological method would help to greatly shape and frame Arendt’s own thinking. Like Heidegger‚ Arendt was sceptical of the metaphysical tradition which tended towards abstract conceptual reasoning; ultimately at odds
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Totalitarianism: A World of Terror Totalitarian is defined as “of or relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation especially by coercive measures (as censorship and terrorism) (Totalitarian)”. Through totalitarianism the government is able to completely control its citizens. This can cause everyone to no longer be individuals‚ no longer be creative‚ and no longer be imaginative
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The totalitarianism traits of ideology‚ control of information and persecution led to the Rape of Nanking which was another atrocity committed by Japan. Ideology is making goals that will benefit the government or state. Control of information is censorship to make citizens think positively about the government or state. Furthermore‚ persecution is the belief of wrongdoing of the enemies of different ethnic‚ religious or political groups. An example of ideology used by the Japanese government
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cannot be lived under totalitarianism. She attempts to grab the attention and emotions of the reader by creating a connection with the vision of a life a human dreams about and shows how under communism it is not possible. “ This is the service the arts do‚ and totalitarians first idea is to destroy exactly this.” By pointing out the weaknesses in communism‚ she makes the reader see the logical side of her argument as well. She states that Communism is apart of totalitarianism. That fascism and communism
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the ones who disobey‚ and having every move planned. In the early 1920s‚ Benito Mussolini coined the term totalitario. “Totalitarianism‚ form of government that seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual’s life to the authority of the government.” Mussolini described totalitarianism as “All within the state‚ none outside the state‚ none against the state.” (“Totalitarianism”). Individuals in a totalitarian state cannot claim any freedom of speech‚ thought or writing. Strict censorship is expressed
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In writing 1984‚ Orwell’s main goal was to warn of the serious danger totalitarianism poses to society. He goes to great lengths to demonstrate the terrifying degree of power and control a totalitarian regime can acquire and maintain. In such regimes‚ notions of personal rights and freedoms and individual thought are pulverized under the all-powerful hand of the government. Orwell was a Socialist and believed strongly in the potential for rebellion to advance society‚ yet too often he witnessed such
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To what extent was the Soviet Union a totalitarian state by 1939? The term ’totalitarianism’ emerged in the 1920s and ’30s‚ to describe the dictatorial regimes which appeared at that time in Germany and the USSR. The Soviet Union was undoubtedly totalitarian by the late 1930s. However‚ Stalin’s power was anything but absolute up until that time. It took the Great Terror‚ the cult of personality and two decades of political patronage to put him in a position where he could abandon the pretences
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