Totalitarian ideology transforms stabilizing law into law as motion

Evidence

No guiding principle of behavior, taken itself from the realm of human action, such as virtue, honor, fear, is necessary or can be useful to set into motion a body politic which no longer uses terror as a means of intimidation, but whose essence is terror. In its stead, it has introduced an entirely new principle into public affairs that dispenses with human will to action altogether and appeals to the craving need for some insight into the law of movement according to which the terror functions and upon which, therefore, all private destinies depend. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1057 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian movements are propelled by direction rather than structure; Totalitarian rule obeys suprapositive laws of Nature or History while defying all positive laws.; Totalitarian law applies to mankind as a species, not to individual behavior. (+3 more)

Related

• Totalitarian rule substitutes insight into the law of movement for principles of action (similarity 0.95)
• Totalitarian rule obeys suprapositive laws of Nature or History while defying all positive laws. (similarity 0.93)
• Totalitarian movements are propelled by direction rather than structure (similarity 0.92)
• Totalitarian movements subordinate the nation’s institutions to the movement itself (similarity 0.90)
• Total terror replaces positive law as the medium translating ideology into reality (similarity 0.83)
• Totalitarian movements require permanent motion and cannot survive stabilization. (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian movements pursue permanent motion rather than any final political goal (similarity 0.81)
• Positive law stabilizes human movement while totalitarian law makes man its embodiment. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian belief vanishes with the movement that sustained it. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian legal theory replaces juridical accountability with fate and life-laws (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian rule requires destroying all autonomous activity, not merely equalizing conditions (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarianism rejects the very consensus iuris that defines any people or legal order. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarianism’s defining destruction is of the space that makes motion and freedom possible. (similarity 0.79)
• Laws restrain action but never inspire it (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian movements reject all structure as a handicap to directional propulsion (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian rule substitutes insight into the law of movement for principles of action #expands (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1057
• Totalitarian legal theory replaces juridical accountability with fate and life-laws #corroborates (0.80)