totalitarian
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Young people constantly pour themselves into digital surveillance systems, giving the managers of those systems a kind of power that would have had 20th-century totalitarians salivating.
As writers and scholars, Lewis and Tolkien ranked among the most perceptive critics of burgeoning totalitarian movements such as Nazism and communism, in no small part due to their shared Christian faith.
Nobody needs to tell a journalist in a totalitarian state what kinds of things can be published and what kinds of things can’t?
From Salon
It would also relieve the immigration system so it can focus on applicants from other countries who weren’t living under totalitarian rule.
There is no memory of democracy on the island, and the totalitarians eliminated civil-society organizations like the Rotary Club and bar association.
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