Totalitarian rule dispenses with the consensus iuris that constitutes a people.

Evidence

A given number of individuals, therefore, can be society to a greater or lesser degree, just as a given number of sounds can be music to a greater or lesser degree. Society as a form presents the ideality of a world awaiting actualization in history. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 51 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

That totalitarian movements depended less on the structurelessness of a mass society than on the specific conditions of an atomized and individualized mass, can best be seen in a comparison of Nazism and Bolshevism which began in their respective countries under very different circumstances. To change Lenin’s revolutionary dictatorship into full totalitarian rule, Stalin had first to create artificially that atomized society which had been prepared for the Nazis in Germany by historical circumstances. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 761 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian rule requires an atomized and individualized mass, not mere social structurelessness — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 761; A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 51

Related

• Totalitarian rule requires an atomized and individualized mass, not mere social structurelessness (similarity 0.86)
• Every society develops its own solution to the problem of bureaucratic control. (similarity 0.80)
• A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees. (similarity 0.80)
• Rule over laborers produces totalitarian loneliness rather than mere isolation (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)
• Totalitarian rule required first destroying all intermediate communal institutions (similarity 0.79)
• Total domination consumes population so heavily it needs excess human material (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian domination aims to make all people equally superfluous (similarity 0.79)
• Class formation allows more positions than simple European Marxism permits. (similarity 0.78)
• Totalitarian movements organize masses by sheer numbers rather than classes or citizen-opinion. (similarity 0.78)
• Full totalitarian rule requires a surplus population large enough to absorb great losses (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees. #qualifies (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 51
• Totalitarian rule requires an atomized and individualized mass, not mere social structurelessness #complicates (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 761