totalitarianisms
Complete governmental dominance systems
Totalitarianisms is the plural of totalitarianism, referring to multiple instances or varieties of authoritarian government that seek absolute control over public and private life.
The plural form typically appears in academic contexts comparing different systems: The totalitarianisms of the twentieth century—Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China—shared certain features while differing in ideology.
Totalitarian Communist doctrine
- NazismGerman fascist totalitarianism
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- fascismUltranationalist dictatorial political system
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
dictatorship · autocracy · despotism · tyranny · Leninism · Francoism · Khmer Rouge · Mussolini
Group primacy doctrine
- statismDoctrine of governmental dominance
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- ultranationalismExtreme supremacist patriotism
- ideological purityUncompromising commitment to doctrine
indoctrination · conformity · dogma · utopianism · mass mobilization · class struggle · revolutionary fervor · thought control
Systematic observation of subjects
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- secret policeClandestine state security apparatus
- purgesForcible removals from power
show trials · deportation · concentration camps · reeducation camps · informants · thought police · media control · personality cult
- 1984Dystopian surveillance state tale
- Brave New World1932 dystopian fiction
- HayekAustrian free-market economist
- PopperFalsificationist epistemologist from Vienna
political philosophy · modernity · atomization · terror · banality of evil · dystopia
Stalinism
Totalitarian Communist doctrine
- NazismGerman fascist totalitarianism
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- fascismUltranationalist dictatorial political system
authoritarianism · dictatorship · autocracy · despotism · tyranny · Leninism · Francoism · Khmer Rouge · Mussolini · Pol Pot
collectivism
Group primacy doctrine
- statismDoctrine of governmental dominance
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- ultranationalismExtreme supremacist patriotism
ideological purity · indoctrination · conformity · dogma · utopianism · mass mobilization · class struggle · revolutionary fervor · thought control · reeducation
surveillance
Systematic observation of subjects
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- secret policeClandestine state security apparatus
purges · show trials · deportation · concentration camps · reeducation camps · informants · thought police · media control · personality cult · terror
Orwell
- 1984Dystopian surveillance state tale
- Brave New World1932 dystopian fiction
- HayekAustrian free-market economist
Popper · political philosophy · modernity · atomization · terror · banality of evil · dystopia
totalitarianismsdemocracies
Governments elected by people
pluralisms · liberal democracies · republicanism · representative governments · federalisms
totalitarianismslaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
limited government · small government · free markets · deregulation
totalitarianismsindividualisms
Doctrines of personal primacy
civil liberties · human rights · personal freedoms · freedom of expression · freedom of conscience