Totalitarianism is a political system whereby a centralized state apparatus attempts to control virtually all aspects of life. In the 20th century it was communism and fascism that provided the ideological support for this type of rule. Both used force and propaganda to attain power, crush economic and civil liberties, smother culture,. partake in mass surveillance, and terrorize the citizenry with psychological warfare and eventually mass imprisonment and mass murder.
In 1940 George Orwell wrote: “Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will be at first a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence.” George Orwell, Inside the Whale George Orwell’s dystopian novel […]
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