Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian intelligentsia’ means a unified, all-absorbing intellectual stratum, not a despotism

Evidence

Totalitarianism is distinct from traditional despotism, but is all the more frightening as a result. Totalitarian rule connects political, military, and ideological power in more concentrated form than was ever possible before the emergence of modern nation-states. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian’ means all-embracing, not pejorative; Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31

Related

• Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian’ means all-embracing, not pejorative (similarity 0.89)
• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.87)
• Gramsci’s concept of totality is a neutral unifying term, not a pejorative one (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarian parties absorb the Crown’s arbitrating function. (similarity 0.82)
• Tyranny is dissolved by predictability or by independent overriding power (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.81)
• The despotism analogy for totalitarian police applies only in early rule (similarity 0.81)
• Totalitarianism introduces unprecedented concepts of power and reality (similarity 0.81)
• Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny (similarity 0.81)
• Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not #responds-to (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31