
What is Totalitarianism? | Hannah Arendt | Keyword
Theory & Philosophy
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What Is the Purpose of Totalitarianism?
The jewish people were targeted especially powerfully in order to create an enemy that could serve as a necessary antithesis against which to establish a strong community bonds. totalitarianism always needs to invigorate the sense that there are these enemies on the horizon. Now this also motivates a desire to expand and to extend itself into other nations and into other places. This is really a, this hearkens back to a longer history of imperialism through europe,. where so many nations were just embracing this idea of expansion for expansion's sake.
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