
What is Totalitarianism? | Hannah Arendt | Keyword
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What Is Totalitarianism?
Anti semitism in europe very much believed and put forward the idea that jewish people were to organize a global order. The only way to combat that is for us to take over the world, they said. And this is exactly what totalitarianism tries to do. It wants to expand everywhere for expansion's sake. In all its efforts, it tries to do away with any traditional structures associated with the state,. like parties, like politics, everything like that. Hence an administrative system that is totally inefficient, totally ill equipped to actually handle people's needs or help them.
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