Propaganda targets outsiders while members receive indoctrination coupled with terror.

Evidence

The essential point is that the necessities for propaganda are always dictated by the outside world and that the movements themselves do not actually propagate but indoctrinate. Conversely, indoctrination, inevitably coupled with terror, increases with the strength of the movements or the totalitarian governments’ isolation and security from outside interference. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 807

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Distinguishes propaganda (for external spheres) from indoctrination (for initiated members) as conceptually distinct mechanisms of totalitarian speech.
  • XREF: The propaganda/indoctrination distinction is a usable scaffold concept for the Islamophobia readings on how exclusionary ideology is taught to insiders versus presented to the public.