Examples of totalitarianism in the following topics:
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- Unlike democracy, authoritarianism and totalitarianism are forms of government where an individual or a single-party concentrates all power.
- The concept of totalitarianism was first developed in a positive sense in the 1920s by Italian fascists.
- Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist free from governmental control.
- In other words, dictatorship concerns the source of the governing power and totalitarianism concerns the scope of the governing power.
- A number of thinkers, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, have argued that Nazi and Soviet regimes were equally totalitarian.
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- One alternative spectrum offered by the conservative American Federalist Journal accounts for only the "degree of government control " without consideration for any other social or political variable and, thus, places "fascism" (totalitarianism ) at one extreme and "anarchy" (no government at all) at the other extreme.
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- Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies to collectivist societies.
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- This introduces, or exposes, a limitation in this simple binary spectrum, where by social views of left-right, fascists and totalitarian systems are on the far right; whereas by a balance of government to individual power, fascists and totalitarian systems are on the far left.
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- Major movements within American conservatism include support for tradition, law-and-order, Christianity, anti-communism, and a defense of "Western civilization from the challenges of modernist culture and totalitarian governments. " Economic conservatives and libertarians favor small government, low taxes, limited regulation, and free enterprise.
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- MacLeish encouraged librarians to oppose totalitarianism on behalf of democracy; dedicated the South Reading Room of the Adams Building to Thomas Jefferson, commissioning artist Ezra Winter to paint four themed murals for the room; and established a "democracy alcove" in the Main Reading Room of the Jefferson Building for important documents such as the Declaration, Constitution and Federalist Papers.