The despotism analogy for totalitarian police applies only in early rule
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 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31; The Rule of law opposes both sovereign despotism and the police state — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 916
Related
- Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.87)
- Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny (similarity 0.84)
- Tyranny is dissolved by predictability or by independent overriding power (similarity 0.84)
- Totalitarianism feeds on the misconception that it is ordinary despotism (similarity 0.82)
- The Rule of law opposes both sovereign despotism and the police state (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian intelligentsia’ means a unified, all-absorbing intellectual stratum, not a despotism (similarity 0.81)
- Imperialism’s global politics supplied the preconditions for totalitarian rule (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarianism introduces unprecedented concepts of power and reality (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarian parties absorb the Crown’s arbitrating function. (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarianism transforms classes into masses and creates entirely new political institutions (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems (similarity 0.78)
- Totalitarian leaders differ from despots in being genuinely unconstrained (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not
#qualifies(0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31