Totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
In totalitarian propaganda, direct threats and crimes against individuals is the use of indirect, veiled, and menacing hints against all who will not heed its teachings and, later, mass murder perpetrated on "guilty" and "innocent" alike.
The obsession of totalitarian movements with "scientific" proofs ceases once they are in power.
Businessman usually do not pose as prophets and they do not constantly demonstrate the correctness of their predictions. The scientifically of totalitarian propaganda is characterized by its almost exclusive insistence on scientific prophecy as distinguished from the more old-fashioned appeal to the past.
The secret police
Totalitarian state is the logical heir of the totalitarian movement from which it borrows its organizational structure.
The emphasize of police as the sole organ of power, which is characteristic of all totalitarian regimes, aspiration to world rule and its conscious abolition of the distinction between a foreign country and a home country, between foreign and domestic affairs.
It's main task consists in forming fifth columns, directing the branches of the movement, influencing the domestic policies of the respective countries, and generally preparing for the time when the totalitarian ruler-after overthrow of the government or military victory- can openly feel at home. The international branches of the secret police are the transmission belts which constantly transform the ostensibly foreign policy of the totalitarian state into the potentially domestic business of the totalitarian movement.
All despotisms rely heavily on secret services and feel more threatened by their own than by any foreign people.
The second claim of totalitarianism, the claim to total domination, is carried out. Totalitarian regimes have proved that the totalitarian utopia can be realized almost to perfection, because it is temporarily independent of defeat or victory.
This system is the logical outgrowth of the leader principle in its full implications and the best possible guarantee for loyalty, in that it makes every new generation depend for its livelihood on the current political line of the leader which started the job-creating purge.
As every individual of any consequence owes his whole existence to the political interest of the regime.
The psychology of the double agent, who was willing to pay the price of a short life for the exalted existence of a few years at the peak, has necessarily become the philosophy in personal matters of the whole post-revolutionary generation in Russia.
This consistent arbitrariness negates human freedom. One had at least to be an enemy of tyranny in order to be punished by it.
Freedom in this system has not only dwindled down to its last and apparently still indestructible guarantee, the possibility of suicide, but has lost its distinctive mark because the consequences of its exercise are shared with completely innocent people.
In totalitarian propaganda, direct threats and crimes against individuals is the use of indirect, veiled, and menacing hints against all who will not heed its teachings and, later, mass murder perpetrated on "guilty" and "innocent" alike.
The obsession of totalitarian movements with "scientific" proofs ceases once they are in power.
Businessman usually do not pose as prophets and they do not constantly demonstrate the correctness of their predictions. The scientifically of totalitarian propaganda is characterized by its almost exclusive insistence on scientific prophecy as distinguished from the more old-fashioned appeal to the past.
The secret police
Totalitarian state is the logical heir of the totalitarian movement from which it borrows its organizational structure.
The emphasize of police as the sole organ of power, which is characteristic of all totalitarian regimes, aspiration to world rule and its conscious abolition of the distinction between a foreign country and a home country, between foreign and domestic affairs.
It's main task consists in forming fifth columns, directing the branches of the movement, influencing the domestic policies of the respective countries, and generally preparing for the time when the totalitarian ruler-after overthrow of the government or military victory- can openly feel at home. The international branches of the secret police are the transmission belts which constantly transform the ostensibly foreign policy of the totalitarian state into the potentially domestic business of the totalitarian movement.
All despotisms rely heavily on secret services and feel more threatened by their own than by any foreign people.
The second claim of totalitarianism, the claim to total domination, is carried out. Totalitarian regimes have proved that the totalitarian utopia can be realized almost to perfection, because it is temporarily independent of defeat or victory.
This system is the logical outgrowth of the leader principle in its full implications and the best possible guarantee for loyalty, in that it makes every new generation depend for its livelihood on the current political line of the leader which started the job-creating purge.
As every individual of any consequence owes his whole existence to the political interest of the regime.
The psychology of the double agent, who was willing to pay the price of a short life for the exalted existence of a few years at the peak, has necessarily become the philosophy in personal matters of the whole post-revolutionary generation in Russia.
This consistent arbitrariness negates human freedom. One had at least to be an enemy of tyranny in order to be punished by it.
Freedom in this system has not only dwindled down to its last and apparently still indestructible guarantee, the possibility of suicide, but has lost its distinctive mark because the consequences of its exercise are shared with completely innocent people.