Totalitarian movements’ rank-and-file dissolved class divisions via shared fear

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• Totalitarian movements justify present terror by reckoning in millennia rather than generations (similarity 0.85)
• Generalized fear dissolves class divisions and political distinctions (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.83)
• A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.82)
• The ruling class unites only through shared fear of the masses (similarity 0.81)
• Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.81)
• War of position is the only struggle form possible in stable class equilibrium. (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian dictatorship rules its own country like a foreign conqueror (similarity 0.79)
• Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian movements organize masses by sheer numbers rather than classes or citizen-opinion. (similarity 0.79)
• A social formation is a complex unity structured in dominance, not an expressive totality. (similarity 0.79)