Totalitarian rule requires large populations to feed total domination

Evidence

Total domination, which strives to organize the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all of humanity were just one individual, is possible only if each and every person can be reduced to a never-changing identity of reactions, so that each of these bundles of reactions can be exchanged at random for any other. The problem is to fabricate something that does not exist, namely, a kind of human species resembling other animal species whose only “freedom” would consist in “preserving the species.” Totalitarian domination attempts to achieve this goal both through ideological indoctrination of the elite formations and through absolute terror in the camps; and the atrocities for which the elite formations are ruthlessly used become, as it were, the practical application of the ideological indoctrination—the testing ground in which the latter must prove itself—while the appalling spectacle of the camps themselves is supposed to furnish the “theoretical” verification of the ideology. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 980 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Total domination consumes population so heavily it needs excess human material; Totalitarian domination requires reducing humans to interchangeable uniform reactions — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 980; Totalitarian regimes legitimize eliminating opposition as unnecessary and weak (+1 more)

Related

• Total domination consumes population so heavily it needs excess human material (similarity 0.96)
• Totalitarian domination requires reducing humans to interchangeable uniform reactions (similarity 0.92)
• Totalitarian rule requires destroying all autonomous activity, not merely equalizing conditions (similarity 0.89)
• Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person (similarity 0.88)
• Totalitarian power aims to render human beings superfluous, not merely to rule them (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarian domination aims to make all people equally superfluous (similarity 0.83)
• Full totalitarian rule requires a surplus population large enough to absorb great losses (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian regimes require global rule to fully dominate even one individual. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian solutions survive regime falls as standing temptations (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian rule obeys suprapositive laws of Nature or History while defying all positive laws. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian power requires remaking individuals from inside outward with terror. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian domination targets spontaneity itself, not mere opposition. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian ideology requires perpetually new categories of victims to survive (similarity 0.80)
• Total domination functionally requires permanent instability rather than material strength. (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian movements organize masses by sheer numbers rather than classes or citizen-opinion. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Total domination consumes population so heavily it needs excess human material #corroborates (0.90)
• Totalitarian domination requires reducing humans to interchangeable uniform reactions #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 980
• Totalitarian regimes legitimize eliminating opposition as unnecessary and weak #corroborates (0.72)