Totalitarian expansion is driven by ideological consistency, not by power or profit

Evidence

The aggressiveness of totalitarianism springs not from lust for power, and if it feverishly seeks to expand, it does so neither for expansion’s sake nor for profit, but only for ideological reasons: to make the world consistent, to prove that its respective supersense has been right. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1030

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with imperial expansion driven by economic exploitation in earlier imperialism chapters; useful for differentiating totalitarian from classical colonial projects. — connects to: Totalitarian movements rewarded ideological consistency over idealism; Ideologies are not what is shaped at power’s base; Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1030

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian movements rewarded ideological consistency over idealism #corroborates (0.85)
• Ideologies are not what is shaped at power’s base #contradicts (0.75)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #corroborates (0.75)