anti-totalitarianism
Against absolute control
Anti-totalitarianism is opposition to totalitarian systems—governments that seek absolute control over public and private life through surveillance, propaganda, and suppression of dissent.
The stance unites people across the political spectrum who reject such regimes regardless of whether they're fascist or communist.
Her anti-totalitarianism was shaped by her parents' escape from the Soviet Union.
Opposition to prevailing views
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- democracyRule by the people
pluralism · civil liberties · human rights · free speech · individualism · constitutionalism · checks and balances · separation of powers
- PopperFalsificationist epistemologist from Vienna
- HayekAustrian free-market economist
- CamusFrench absurdist author-philosopher
- open societySociety permitting free inquiry
Solzhenitsyn · critique · manifesto · pamphlet · samizdat · essay · treatise · warning
Polish trade union movement
- Prague Spring1968 Czechoslovak reform period
- Charter 77Czech dissident manifesto
- Velvet RevolutionCzechoslovakia's nonviolent 1989 transition
- TiananmenBeijing square and gate
dissident · underground · protest · demonstration · strike · boycott · civil disobedience · resistance cell
Preventing hostile expansion
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Radio Free EuropeWestern broadcast to Soviet bloc
- Voice of AmericaFederal international broadcasting service
Marshall Plan · Truman Doctrine · Berlin Wall · détente · rollback · propaganda · espionage · defection
dissidence
Opposition to prevailing views
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
democracy · pluralism · civil liberties · human rights · free speech · individualism · constitutionalism · checks and balances · separation of powers · limited government
Orwell
- PopperFalsificationist epistemologist from Vienna
- HayekAustrian free-market economist
- CamusFrench absurdist author-philosopher
Solzhenitsyn · open society · critique · manifesto · pamphlet · samizdat · essay · treatise · warning · dystopia
Solidarity
Polish trade union movement
- Prague Spring1968 Czechoslovak reform period
- Charter 77Czech dissident manifesto
- Velvet RevolutionCzechoslovakia's nonviolent 1989 transition
Tiananmen · dissident · underground · protest · demonstration · strike · boycott · civil disobedience · resistance cell · exile community
containment
Preventing hostile expansion
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Radio Free EuropeWestern broadcast to Soviet bloc
Voice of America · Marshall Plan · Truman Doctrine · Berlin Wall · détente · rollback · propaganda · espionage · defection · asylum
anti-totalitarianismtotalitarianism
State controls everything absolutely
fascism · Stalinism · Nazism · Maoism · authoritarianism
anti-totalitarianismsubjugation
Forcing into submission
oppression · repression · conformism · groupthink · anti-individualism
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