TOTALITARIANISM
Legal Dictionary
October 28, 2016
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Totalitarianism is a political system in which the government controls every aspect of its citizens’ public and private lives. An example of totalitarianism can be seen in a government that does not permit individual freedoms of any kind. Although the term was originally meant to be a positive thing, by the time World War II began, reality had linked the term “totalitarian” with an absolute, oppressive, one-party government. To explore this concept, consider the following totalitarianism definition.

Definition of Totalitarianism

• The practices of a totalitarian government.
• Absolute control by a centralized government.
• The character or quality of an authority figure or government.

Origin

1927 Carl Schmitt’s “The Concept of the Political”