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totalitarian

adjective as in dictatorial

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Starting in 2018, the regime transitioned from a relatively free authoritarian system to a closed dictatorship, not quite totalitarian but close.

From Time

So in terms of capitalism, if the alternative is communism then yes, I think that there are actually excellent arguments why market society is better than a top-down authoritarian, totalitarian dictatorship.

It’s akin to security agents from a totalitarian regime showing up at the house of an opposition leader looking for evidence of espionage.

Indeed, history has shown us just how much of a threat schlocky Hollywood entertainment is to totalitarian governments.

Kundera was reacting against the efforts of 20th-century totalitarian regimes to refashion novelists as propagandists.

So you are saying that Napoleon was not a totalitarian-dictator as many historians are eager to suggest?

Biographer Andrew Roberts argues that history has maligned Napoleon by lumping him in with totalitarian thugs.

One has to admit that a totalitarian empire is impossible without the Iron Curtain or a system of complete information isolation.

Convince her its governments were evil, totalitarian, when in reality they were democratic?

This totalitarian trading system insures that foreign trade serves the purposes of the state.

They would then be free to impose their will and spread their totalitarian ideology.

Modern China faces more than political problems; a totalitarian revolution has engulfed it.

The totalitarian state does not recognize personal liberties for the individual.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to totalitarian, such as: authoritarian, autocratic, monolithic, oppressive, tyrannical, and absolute.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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