Totalitarian government is a powerless façade over real party power

Evidence

The moment when it becomes impossible to destroy a party by normal means is reached when the two other elements cannot help being formed—that is, the first element, which in its turn necessarily forms the third as its continuation and its means of expressing itself. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 680 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• A party becomes indestructible when its mass base and leadership perpetuate themselves (similarity 0.83)
• Totalitarian government is not monolithic but a shapeless dual authority of party and state (similarity 0.81)
• Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems (similarity 0.81)
• Sacralized politics yields a self-sustaining power structure resistant to change (similarity 0.79)
• A party is an embryonic state and can permit no division of power (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• In totalitarian states, real power correlates inversely with institutional visibility #corroborates (0.95)
• A party becomes indestructible when its mass base and leadership perpetuate themselves #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 680