Totalitarian movements require permanent motion and cannot survive stabilization.

Evidence

To a totalitarian movement, both dangers are equally deadly: a development toward absolutism would put an end to the movement’s interior drive, and a development toward nationalism would frustrate its exterior expansion, without which the movement cannot survive. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 895

Categorization

• DEFINE: This defines the core structural feature of totalitarian movements: permanent revolution/instability as survival requirement.
• XREF: The ‘movement must never ossify’ mechanism connects to the reader’s scaffolding on how totalitarian ideology sustains itself. — connects to: The post-war stability system bred the very movements that challenged it — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 147