Totalitarian domination aims to make all people equally superfluous

Evidence

Therefore character is a threat and even the most unjust legal rules are an obstacle; but individuality, anything indeed that distinguishes one man from another, is intolerable. As long as all men have not been made equally superfluous—and this has been accomplished only in concentration camps—the ideal of totalitarian domination has not been achieved. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1026

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core totalitarian ideal as the manufacture of superfluity — everyone rendered equally dispensable.
• XREF: Connects to the biopolitics/necropolitics strand of the reader’s scaffolding toolkit — the state’s power to reduce populations to bare superfluous life.