totalitarianism
Totalitarianism shot into the nations of Europe in rapid fire during the period between the two World Wars. ... Dictators saw totalitarianism as a solution to the problem of the loss of community and authoritative traditions. ... the private and non-political sphere of life including its religious institutions, to supply its citizens with meaning, totalitarianism effaced the distinction between public-private, state-civil society, and used the state to impose meaning by any means necessary. ... Totalitarianism, on the other hand, assumed that appeals to irrational or non-rational foundations (race or class) will supply the moral glue to hold policy and society together. As totalitarianism diverged from liberalism, it also diverged from authoritarianism. ... If authoritarian is a police state, the totalitarianism is the secret police state. ... For example, totalitarianism of the left emerged in the Soviet Union. ... Totalitarianism of the Right, however, emerged in Italy and Germany. ... Although their ideologies differed, there was no real difference between totalitarianism of the left and the right. ... Totalitarianism of the right was called fascism. ... Similar to leftist totalitarianism, fascism is a form of government headed by a dictator.