totalitarianism

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Whereas authoritarianism may leave society outside the political realm more or less intact, totalitarianism makes a total claim on civil society.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

As that description implies, totalitarianism is a crisis of modernization.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

Jeffries tells fellow members that they have a responsibility to push back against tyranny, totalitarianism and terror, and to stand with democracies around the world.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024

Watch the moment Irish author Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2023

But totalitarianism is no less odious to us because we are able to reach some accommodation that reduces the danger of world catastrophe.

From State of the Union Address by Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)