A party is an embryonic state and can permit no division of power

Evidence

If we ask now what the original sin was which allowed this to happen, the collapse (or non-emergence) of democracy seems to be the most convincing answer. In the absence of traditional authority, the only checks and balances capable of keeping the body politic away from extremities can be supplied by political democracy. The latter is not, however, quick to arrive, and it is slower still to take root once the hold of the old authority and system of control had been broken – particularly if the breaking was done in a hurry. Such situations of interregnum and instability tend to occur during and after deep-reaching revolutions, which succeed in paralysing old seats of social power without as yet replacing them with new ones – and create for this reason a state of affairs in which political and military forces are neither counterbalanced nor restrained by resourceful and influential social ones. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 322 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems; Continental party theory defined parties as partial, self-limiting, and incapable of standing alone; Party spirit, not individualism, is the foundation of State spirit — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 659 (+3 more)

Related

• Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems (similarity 0.85)
• Failed or collapsed democracy left no checks on state power (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian government is not monolithic but a shapeless dual authority of party and state (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian government is a powerless façade over real party power (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian parties absorb the Crown’s arbitrating function. (similarity 0.79)
• Political parties prove that organized permanent passion is operationally possible (similarity 0.78)
• A party can function as a general ideology superintending scattered rival groups (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian government is a powerless façade over real party power #qualifies (0.78)
• Failed or collapsed democracy left no checks on state power #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 322
• The state cannot claim a monopoly over law #complicates (0.72)