Totalitarian domination aims at perpetual individual control, never completion

Evidence

Neither National Socialism nor Bolshevism has ever proclaimed a new form of government or asserted that its goals were reached with the seizure of power and the control of the state machinery. Their idea of domination was something that no state and no mere apparatus of violence can ever achieve, but only a movement that is constantly kept in motion: namely, the permanent domination of each single individual in each and every sphere of life. The seizure of power through the means of violence is never an end in itself but only the means to an end, and the seizure of power in any given country is only a welcome transitory stage but never the end of the movement. The practical goal of the movement is to organize as many people as possible within its framework and to set and keep them in motion; a political goal that would constitute the end of the movement simply does not exist. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 774

Categorization

• XREF: The movement-without-end as domination mechanism parallels the open-ended, ever-expanding construction of the Other that later Orientalism-critique readings trace; connects to perpetual-motion ideas of colonial and racial projects.
• DEFINE: Defines the totalitarian movement as structurally endless — a self-sustaining domination that cannot terminate short of total individual control.