Totalitarian rule obeys suprapositive laws of Nature or History while defying all positive laws.

Evidence

No guiding principle of behavior, taken itself from the realm of human action, such as virtue, honor, fear, is necessary or can be useful to set into motion a body politic which no longer uses terror as a means of intimidation, but whose essence is terror. In its stead, it has introduced an entirely new principle into public affairs that dispenses with human will to action altogether and appeals to the craving need for some insight into the law of movement according to which the terror functions and upon which, therefore, all private destinies depend. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1057 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mass-leader infallibility rests on interpreting laws of history or nature.; Totalitarian ideology transforms stabilizing law into law as motion; Totalitarian law applies to mankind as a species, not to individual behavior. (+2 more)

Related

• Totalitarian ideology transforms stabilizing law into law as motion (similarity 0.93)
• Totalitarian rule substitutes insight into the law of movement for principles of action (similarity 0.89)
• Totalitarian movements are propelled by direction rather than structure (similarity 0.87)
• Totalitarian movements subordinate the nation’s institutions to the movement itself (similarity 0.87)
• Total terror replaces positive law as the medium translating ideology into reality (similarity 0.85)
• Totalitarian rule requires destroying all autonomous activity, not merely equalizing conditions (similarity 0.83)
• Totalitarian law applies to mankind as a species, not to individual behavior. (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarianism rejects the very consensus iuris that defines any people or legal order. (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian rule explodes the lawful versus lawless distinction central to all political philosophy. (similarity 0.82)
• Positive law stabilizes human movement while totalitarian law makes man its embodiment. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian rule is not monolithic but deliberately overlapping, held by a Führer-principle (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian rule requires large populations to feed total domination (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian ideology requires perpetually new categories of victims to survive (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian rule operates as perpetual movement, not as settled government #expands (0.85)
• Totalitarian ideology transforms stabilizing law into law as motion #expands (0.82)
• Totalitarian rule substitutes insight into the law of movement for principles of action #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1057
• Totalitarian law applies to mankind as a species, not to individual behavior. #complicates (0.75)