Totalitarian world conquest logically abolishes the distinction between homeland and conquered territory

Evidence

Totalitarian regimes are not afraid of the logical implications of world conquest even if they work the other way around and are detrimental to their own peoples’ interests. Logically, it is indisputable that a plan for world conquest involves the abolition of differences between the conquering mother country and the conquered territories, as well as the difference between foreign and domestic politics, upon which all existing nontotalitarian institutions and all international intercourse are based. If the totalitarian conqueror conducts himself everywhere as though he were at home, by the same token he must treat his own population as though he were a foreign conqueror. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 933

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates the core mechanism by which totalitarian expansion erases the motherland/colony distinction on which all nontotalitarian politics rests.
• XREF: Connects to the founding opposition of homeland/colony that postcolonial theory (which builds on Arendt) later critiques. — connects to: The resource enclave treats extractable territory as imaginatively severed from its own nation — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 194