Totalitarian bureaucracy extends control into the private soul that older bureaucracies left intact
Evidence
The way the totalitarian movements have kept the private lives of their leaders (Hitler and Stalin) absolutely secret contrasts with the publicity value which all democracies find in parading the private lives of Presidents, Kings, Prime Ministers, etc., in public. Totalitarian methods do not allow for an identification based on the conviction: Even the highest of us is only human. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2671 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
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 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31; Totalitarian leaders maintain total private-life secrecy to prevent humanizing identification. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2671; Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person (+2 more)
Related
- Totalitarian leaders maintain total private-life secrecy to prevent humanizing identification. (similarity 0.93)
- Totalitarian rule extends control into the private inner life of subjects (similarity 0.87)
- Totalitarian leaders used confessed, irreversible crimes to bind followers. (similarity 0.83)
- Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person (similarity 0.83)
- Totalitarian leaders rise through intrigue and personnel control, not violence or bureaucracy (similarity 0.83)
- Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny (similarity 0.82)
- Totalitarian leaders differ from despots in being genuinely unconstrained (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.81)
- Appointment from above matters more than unlimited authority for totalitarian stability (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarian rule requires destroying all autonomous activity, not merely equalizing conditions (similarity 0.80)
- Hobbes protected private interests while totalitarianism proclaims privacy does not exist (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarian power requires remaking individuals from inside outward with terror. (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarian control targets the inner life, not just behavior (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarian movements borrow secret-society forms while broadcasting their aims openly (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarian rule is not monolithic but deliberately overlapping, held by a Führer-principle (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person
#corroborates(0.85) - Totalitarian leaders maintain total private-life secrecy to prevent humanizing identification.
#contradicts(0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2671 - Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not
#expands(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31 - Totalitarian leaders rise through intrigue and personnel control, not violence or bureaucracy
#contradicts(0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 866