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Totalitarianism
Title: Totalitarianism
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 2734 | Pages: 11.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Totalitarianism
In the early 1920s Mussolini was amongst the first fascists to refer approvingly to the newly
emerging Italian Fascist state as ‘totalitarian’. During the late 1950s and the early 1960s –
particularly in a Cold War fixated America - a theory centred on totalitarianism became the
dominant academic narrative on both fascism and communism.
This was in good part due to its use in legitimising certain anti-communist conservative political
aims of the Cold War (by associating communism …showed first 75 words of 2734 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2734 total…term for nazism alone, to
delineate the later more radical phase under SS domination from the pre-1937 period. But
concludes that :
…it seems to me that the depiction of nazism as a ‘totalitarian system’ are best avoided,
not simply because of the inescapable political colouring attached to the label
‘totalitarian’, but because of the weighty conceptual problems which the term poses….
(Ibid)
Ultimately, as Habermas argued, ‘at this level of abstraction ….. all cats are grey.’
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