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• n  a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
• n  the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government

• All the forces that had made the 20th century such a violent disappointment to idealists--totalitarianism, the gigantic state, the crushing of individual choice and initiative .
• This satire of totalitarianism came out the year after 1984, and almost didn't surface at all, in anything like its maker's version.
• Ceca's career is hopelessly entangled in the corruption, ethnic cleansing and soft totalitarianism of the Milosevic era.

• dictatorship
• absolutism
• authoritarianism
• Caesarism
• despotism
• monocracy
• one-man rule
• shogunate
• Stalinism
• tyranny
• totalism

News & Articles

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• Yanis Varoufakis: Occupying the Closure of Greek Public TV (Journalists at BBC, ABC, and CBC, Take Note). Updated
  For those of us who grew up in the Greece of the neo-fascist colonels, nothing can stir up painful memories like a modern act of totalitarianism. When the television screen froze last night, an hour before midnight, as if some sinister power from beyond had pressed a hideous pause button, I was suddenly transported to the 60s and early 70s when a disruption in television or radio output was a ...
  June 13, 2013 - Naked Capitalism

Quotes

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• James Tedisco in FOXNews
  If you start to diminish democracy, you start going to totalitarianism,Tedisco said.
• Barack Obama in Newsweek
  Moreover, Obama said, in a world of diverse and competing truths "it is rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal about humanity......What we faced in Nazi totalitarianism was not just a battle of competing interests. It was a...
• Tkachuk in Washington Post
  It's difficult to have a democracy after totalitarianism. Our parents were born under that system. But these kids, they look forward. They feel life in a different way. They are able to use choices,Tkachuk said. "The same will one day be...