Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

In respect of administrative resources, tendencies towards increasing democratic involvement have as their dark side possibilities for the creation of totalitarian power. The intensifying of surveillance operations provides many avenues of democratic involvement, but also makes possible the sectional control of political power, bolstered by monopolistic access to the means of violence, as an instrument of terror. Totalitarianism and modernity are not just contingently, but inherently, connected, as Zygmunt Bauman in particular has made clear. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 401 (#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; Totalitarianism is inherently, not just contingently, connected to modernity — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 401; Imperial racism and bureaucracy supply the elements of totalitarian rule — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 567 (+2 more)

Related

• Tyranny is dissolved by predictability or by independent overriding power (similarity 0.89)
• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.89)
• Totalitarianism introduces unprecedented concepts of power and reality (similarity 0.88)
• Totalitarianism is inherently, not just contingently, connected to modernity (similarity 0.88)
• Imperialism’s global politics supplied the preconditions for totalitarian rule (similarity 0.87)
• The despotism analogy for totalitarian police applies only in early rule (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarian ritual idolatry is an organizational device, not a religion (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarianism transforms classes into masses and creates entirely new political institutions (similarity 0.83)
• Total domination alone among governments rules out peaceful coexistence (similarity 0.83)
• Totalitarian parties absorb the Crown’s arbitrating function. (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian government is not monolithic but a shapeless dual authority of party and state (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian rule explodes the lawful versus lawless distinction central to all political philosophy. (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian power operates independently of material interest and profit motives (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarianism feeds on the misconception that it is ordinary despotism (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not #expands (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31
• Tyranny is dissolved by predictability or by independent overriding power #expands (0.78)
• Totalitarianism is inherently, not just contingently, connected to modernity #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 401
• Imperial racism and bureaucracy supply the elements of totalitarian rule #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 567