Imperialism’s global politics supplied the preconditions for totalitarian rule

Evidence

In respect of administrative resources, tendencies towards increasing democratic involvement have as their dark side possibilities for the creation of totalitarian power. The intensifying of surveillance operations provides many avenues of democratic involvement, but also makes possible the sectional control of political power, bolstered by monopolistic access to the means of violence, as an instrument of terror. Totalitarianism and modernity are not just contingently, but inherently, connected, as Zygmunt Bauman in particular has made clear. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 401 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperialism made power an end in itself rather than a means to law; Imperialism politically emancipated the previously excluded bourgeoisie; Imperial racism and bureaucracy supply the elements of totalitarian rule — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 567 (+6 more)

Related

• Totalitarianism is inherently, not just contingently, connected to modernity (similarity 0.87)
• Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny (similarity 0.87)
• Totalitarianism introduces unprecedented concepts of power and reality (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.82)
• Imperialism from 1884-1914 served as a preparatory stage for totalitarianism (similarity 0.80)
• The despotism analogy for totalitarian police applies only in early rule (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian ritual idolatry is an organizational device, not a religion (similarity 0.80)
• The crisis producing totalitarianism is internal to Western civilization, not foreign aggression (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarianism transforms classes into masses and creates entirely new political institutions (similarity 0.78)
• Totalitarian susceptibility persisted from technological and economic developments (similarity 0.78)
• Imperial racism and bureaucracy supply the elements of totalitarian rule (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarianism is inherently, not just contingently, connected to modernity #expands (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 401