Tyranny is dissolved by predictability or by independent overriding power
Evidence
Totalitarianism is distinct from traditional despotism, but is all the more frightening as a result. Totalitarian rule connects political, military, and ideological power in more concentrated form than was ever possible before the emergence of modern nation-states. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31; Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny; Popular sovereignty can itself become a collective tyranny indistinguishable from a single tyrant
Related
- Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny (similarity 0.89)
- Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.89)
- The despotism analogy for totalitarian police applies only in early rule (similarity 0.84)
- Totalitarian parties absorb the Crown’s arbitrating function. (similarity 0.84)
- Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems (similarity 0.83)
- Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian intelligentsia’ means a unified, all-absorbing intellectual stratum, not a despotism (similarity 0.82)
- Totalitarianism transforms classes into masses and creates entirely new political institutions (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarian movements subordinate the nation’s institutions to the movement itself (similarity 0.81)
- Popular sovereignty can itself become a collective tyranny indistinguishable from a single tyrant (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarianism introduces unprecedented concepts of power and reality (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarianism is inherently, not just contingently, connected to modernity (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarianism replaces all independent talent with loyal mediocrity to ensure predictability (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarian dictatorship rules its own country like a foreign conqueror (similarity 0.80)
- Total domination alone among governments rules out peaceful coexistence (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarian leaders differ from despots in being genuinely unconstrained (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not
#qualifies(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31