Definitions for Totalitarian
toʊˌtæl ɪˈtɛər i ənto·tal·i·tar·i·an

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1. totalitarianadjective

   an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government

2. totalitarianadjective

   characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control

   "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.

3. totalitarian, totalisticadjective

   of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life

   "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion"

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1. totalitariannoun

   An advocate of totalitarianism.

2. totalitarianadjective

   A system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically.

3. Etymology: From totalitario

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1. totalitarian

   Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme and complete form of authoritarianism. In totalitarian states, political power is often held by autocrats, such as dictators (totalitarian dictatorship) and absolute monarchs, who employ all-encompassing campaigns in which propaganda is broadcast by state-controlled mass media in order to control the citizenry. By 1950, the term and concept of totalitarianism entered mainstream Western political discourse. Furthermore this era also saw anti-communist and McCarthyist political movements intensify and use the concept of totalitarianism as a tool to convert pre-World War II anti-fascism into Cold War anti-communism.As a political ideology in itself, totalitarianism is a distinctly modernist phenomenon, and it has very complex historical roots. Philosopher Karl Popper traced its roots to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's conception of the state, and the political philosophy of Karl Marx, although Popper's conception of totalitarianism has been criticized in academia, and remains highly controversial. Other philosophers and historians such as Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer trace the origin of totalitarian doctrines to the Age of Enlightenment, especially to the anthropocentrist idea that "Man has become the master of the world, a master unbound by any links to nature, society, and history." In the 20th century, the idea of absolute state power was first developed by Italian Fascists, and concurrently in Germany by a jurist and Nazi academic named Carl Schmitt during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Scholars and historians have considered Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, to be one of the first to attempt to establish a totalitarian state. Benito Mussolini, the founder of Italian Fascism, called his regime the "Totalitarian State": "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." Schmitt used the term Totalstaat (lit. 'Total state') in his influential 1927 work titled The Concept of the Political, which described the legal basis of an all-powerful state.Totalitarian regimes are different from other authoritarian regimes, as the latter denotes a state in which the single power holder, usually an individual dictator, a committee, a military junta, or an otherwise small group of political elites, monopolizes political power. A totalitarian regime may attempt to control virtually all aspects of social life, including the economy, the education system, arts, science, and the private lives and morals of citizens through the use of an elaborate ideology. It can also mobilize the whole population in pursuit of its goals.

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1. totalitarian

   Totalitarian refers to a system of government where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life whenever necessary. In a totalitarian regime, there is centralized control by an autocratic authority, and political power is often maintained through coercion, surveillance, propaganda, censorship, and restrictions on freedom of expression and personal autonomy.

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   The numerical value of Totalitarian in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of Totalitarian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Totalitarian in a Sentence

1. Alan Dershowitz:

   Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well.

2. Ludwig Knoepffler:

   The idea is to fight the hijab as a political tool used and promoted by Islamist militants, if you believe that the Islamist political project is indeed totalitarian, then you have to fight its distinctive signs. The same way you would ban the swastika in the public sphere, as is the case already.

3. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)

4. Matthew Kroenig:

   It’s really a move in a totalitarian direction trying to control all aspects of society.

5. John Gibbs:

   A great website detailing, among other things, the unconstitutional laws which passed as a result of the 19th amendment, and providing further evidence of the damages done by the 19th amendment : The 19th Amendment and the Totalitarian State.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Totalitarian
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Totalitarian
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian
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