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Totalist vs. Totalitarianism — What's the Difference?

Totalist vs. Totalitarianism — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Totalist and Totalitarianism

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Totalist

A proponent of totalism.

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is a concept for a form of government or political system that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme and complete form of authoritarianism.

Totalist

Totalistic

Totalitarianism

Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed
"A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).

Totalitarianism

A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
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Totalitarianism

A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

Totalitarianism

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

Totalitarianism

The principle of complete and unrestricted power in government

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