Totalitarian regimes require global rule to fully dominate even one individual.

Evidence

The struggle for total domination of the total population of the earth, the elimination of every competing nontotalitarian reality, is inherent in the totalitarian regimes themselves; if they do not pursue global rule as their ultimate goal, they are only too likely to lose whatever power they have already seized. Even a single individual can be absolutely and reliably dominated only under global totalitarian conditions. … Totalitarianism in power uses the state administration for its long-range goal of world conquest and for the direction of the branches of the movement; it establishes the secret police as the executors and guardians of its domestic experiment in constantly transforming reality into fiction; and it finally erects concentration camps as special laboratories to carry through its experiment in total domination. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 898

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the three-part structure of totalitarianism in power: state administration for world conquest, secret police transforming reality into fiction, concentration camps as laboratories of total domination.
• XREF: Connects to the biopolitics/necropolitics toolkit: concentration camps as laboratories anticipate Mbembe’s necropolitics and Arendt’s later analysis of the camp as the totalitarian institution par excellence.