Questions tagged [totalitarianism]
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Quote check: Hannah Arendt on ideology and capability to reason
I am searching the source and exact words for a quote from Hannah Arendt that I only vaguely remember:
Das Ziel totalitärer Systeme ist es nicht, die Menschen von der eigenen Ideology zu überzeugen. ...
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Why does Arendt say that the 'absence of continuity' is an outstanding characteristic of the totalitarian mind?
Hannah Arendt writes in her book The Origins of Totalitarianism:
Stalin's successors attempted to do without concessions to
the name of their predecessor, even though Stalin had thirty years' ...
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Is gaslighting a totalitarian measure?
The term gas-lighting means:
manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity.
This is given in individual terms; by this, I mean that gaslighting is done by some-one to ...
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Was Bertrand Russell correct in characterising the United States as 'a Nazi State'? [closed]
In his book, War Crimes in Vietnam, published in 1967 Russell several times calls the United States a Nazi State:
The United States government is conducting a war of annihilation in the Vietnam. ...
