Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems

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: Totalitarian regimes duplicate every state function with a parallel party organ; Totalitarian party rule works through exclusion, not mass membership; Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31 (+2 more)

Related

• Totalitarian parties absorb the Crown’s arbitrating function. (similarity 0.87)
• A party is an embryonic state and can permit no division of power (similarity 0.85)
• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.85)
• Tyranny is dissolved by predictability or by independent overriding power (similarity 0.83)
• Totalitarian regimes duplicate every state function with a parallel party organ (similarity 0.83)
• Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian party rule works through exclusion, not mass membership (similarity 0.81)
• Totalitarian rule is not monolithic but deliberately overlapping, held by a Führer-principle (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian intelligentsia’ means a unified, all-absorbing intellectual stratum, not a despotism (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian government is not monolithic but a shapeless dual authority of party and state (similarity 0.79)
• The despotism analogy for totalitarian police applies only in early rule (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian party rule works through exclusion, not mass membership #expands (0.75)
• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not #qualifies (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31
• A party is an embryonic state and can permit no division of power #corroborates (0.70)