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The new totalitarianism

Porcupine Blog
by Larry Gambone

06/05/09

As everyone knows, ‘classic’ totalitarian systems are fa[s]cism, nazi-fascism and Stalinism. The idea was to mold humanity in the image presented by the state ideology. This was achieved through terror, but also mass media, the education system, a party hierarchy that one had to join to get ahead, the creation of scape goats and demonic figures and an economic system geared to the needs of the state. But classical totalitarianism suffered from a number of serious flaws. For the ruling classes, the dictators they backed were unwilling to remain as puppets and had ideas of their own. Having the police and the army in their control they were able to attempt those plans. The second was the problem of succession, always a problem in a dictatorship. The third was inefficiency...

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