Totalitarian movements treat everyone not expressly included as an enemy

Evidence

With secret societies, the totalitarian movements also share the dichotomous division of the world between “sworn blood brothers” and an indistinct inarticulate mass of sworn enemies.” This distinction, based on absolute hostility to the surrounding world, is very different from the ordinary parties’ tendency to divide people into those who belong and those who don’t. Parties and open societies in general will consider only those who expressly oppose them to be their enemies, while it has always been the principle of secret societies that “whosoever is not expressly included is excluded.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 870

Categorization

• DEFINE: The ‘whoever is not expressly included is excluded’ principle is a precise, portable definition distinguishing totalitarian from ordinary in-group thinking.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s scaffolding on Othering and exclusion in Islamophobia readings — the logic of presumptive enemy status.