The crisis producing totalitarianism is internal to Western civilization, not foreign aggression

Evidence

If it is true that the elements of totalitarianism can be found by retracing the history and analyzing the political implications of what we usually call the crisis of our century, then the conclusion is unavoidable that this crisis is no mere threat from the outside, no mere result of some aggressive foreign policy of either Germany or Russia, and that it will no more disappear with the death of Stalin than it disappeared with the fall of Nazi Germany. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1036