Yet our state is similar to a cancer cell — with its messianism and expansionism, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, the authoritarian structure of power, with a total absence of public control in the most important decisions in domestic and foreign policy, a closed society that does not inform its citizens of anything substantial, closed to the outside world, without freedom of travel or the exchange of information.

It was blamed for creating a totalitarian society and thereby experienced decline.

One member of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights commented on the Americas Watch report and its chief investigator Juan Mendez: " The Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a totalitarian society here and yet all Mendez wanted to hear about were abuses by the contras.

Gleichschaltung ), meaning " coordination ", " making the same ", " bringing into line ", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society.

Later, the Russian Revolution of 1917 would ultimately transform Turkmenistan from an Islamic tribal society to a totalitarian Leninist one during the Soviet era.

Totalitarianism ( or totalitarian rule ) is a political system where the state holds total authority over society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever feasible.

George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel about a coercive and impoverished totalitarian society, conditioning its population through propaganda rather than drugs.

* George Orwell's novel, 1984, portrays a fictional totalitarian surveillance society which has a very simple ( by today's standards ) mass surveillance system consisting of human operatives, informants, and two-way " telescreens " in people's homes.

Personality cults were first described in relation to totalitarian regimes that sought to alter or transform society according to radical ideas.

The philosophy of totalitarian democracy, according to Talmon, is based on a top-down view of society, which sees an absolute and perfect political truth to which all reasonable humans are driven.

Alongside Eliade's main works, his attempted novel of youth, Minunata călătorie a celor cinci cărăbuşi in ţara furnicilor roşii, which depicts a population of red ants living in a totalitarian society and forming bands to harass the beetles, was seen as a potential allusion to the Soviet Union and to communism.

Namely, libertarians believe that no person should have the right to decide for others what goods are necessary for living and which aren't, or that luxuries are necessarily wasteful, and thus argue that anti-consumerism is a precursor to central planning or a totalitarian society.

Mannheim's first major work published during this period was Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction 1935, in which he argues for a shift from liberal order of laissez-faire capitalism, " founded on the unregulated trade cycle, unextended democracy, free competition and ideas of competitive individualism " to planned democracy In Diagnosis of Our Time, Mannheim expands on this argument and expresses concern for the transition from liberal order to planned democracy, according to Longhurst, arguing "... the embryonic planned democratic society can develop along democratic or dictorial routes ... as expressed in the totalitarian societies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ".

* Brazil ( 1985 ) — directed by Terry Gilliam and set in a dystopian totalitarian bureaucratic society, features many Rube Goldberg machines with specific household uses.

Totalitarian communist regimes have been criticized for their one-party dictatorships, totalitarian control of the economy and society and repression of civil liberties by the Council of Europe, economic focus on heavy industry at the expense of consumer goods, sometimes resulting in shortages of vital products or even famine, and militarism and propaganda to cover up the mistakes of the government.

In The Prevention of Literature he also speculated on the type of literature under a future totalitarian society which he predicted would be formulaic and low grade sensationalism.

It takes the totalitarian and conformative aspects of modern industrial society to an extreme conclusion, depicting a state that believes that free will is the cause of unhappiness, and that citizens ' lives should be controlled with mathematical precision based on the system of industrial efficiency created by Frederick Winslow Taylor.

The Sakurakai or Cherry Blossom Society was the name chosen by young officers within the Imperial Japanese Army in September 1930 for their secret society established with the goal of reorganizing the state along totalitarian militaristic lines, via a military coup d ' état if necessary.

In " Printer's Devil ," Meredith portrayed the Devil himself, and in " The Obsolete Man " he portrayed a librarian, sentenced to death in a future, dystopic totalitarian society.

The film portrays a futuristic totalitarian society modeled after the fascist state, including black uniforms, book burnings, and thought control.

Democracies are examples of the " open society ," whereas totalitarian dictatorships, theocracy, and autocratic monarchies are examples of the " closed society.

This principle became the law of the National Socialist German Worker's Party and the SS and was later transferred onto the whole German totalitarian society.

Modern observers might describe Sparta as a totalitarian or one-party state, although the details we know of its society come almost exclusively from Sparta's enemies.

Under the totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union numerous political anecdotes circulating in society were the only way to reveal and denounce vices of the political system and its leaders.

He is the enigmatic dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian state taken to its utmost logical consequence – where the ruling Party wields total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.

This novel begins with the death of Big Brother and reflects an intermediate period between 1984 and a more optimistic future characterized with a decline in orthodoxy of the totalitarian system, struggles of the ensuing powers and the near destruction of the Oceania air force by Eurasia.

Ingsoc ( Newspeak for " English Socialism ") is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian science fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Initially, he appears as such, especially in giving Winston a copy of Goldstein ’ s illegal book, which O ’ Brien says reveals the true, totalitarian nature of the society the Party established in Oceania ; full membership to the Brotherhood requires reading and knowing The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, the true title of " the book ".

Winston reads two long excerpts establishing how the three totalitarian super-states – Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia – emerged from a global war, thus connecting the past and the present, and explains the basic political philosophy of the totalitarianism that derived from the authoritarian political tendencies manifested in the first part of the twentieth century.

* George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four contains a brief passage in which the protagonist, Winston Smith, a worker at the propaganda-producing Ministry of Truth, creates a fictitious hero " Comrade Ogilvy ", a man dedicated to Oceania ( the novel's totalitarian régime ) who " dies " in the line of duty.

Julia believes the Party tries to bottle up the sex drive and transform it into hysteria and leader-worship: very desirable qualities in the ultimate totalitarian state that is Oceania.

Its various factions and races include the Imperium of Man, a decentralized yet totalitarian interstellar empire that has ruled the vast majority of humanity for millennia, the Orks ( similar to Warhammer Fantasy Orcs ), the Eldar ( similar to Elves in Warhammer Fantasy Battle ), and Daemons ( very similar in both universes, although the precise natures of their creation and existence vary slightly ), among others.

More recent films that have explicitly explored parallel universes are: the 2000 film The Family Man, the 2001 cult movie Donnie Darko, which deals with what it terms a " tangent universe " that erupts from our own universe ; Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ) has the eponymous heroes cross over into a parallel universe ruled by humanoids who evolved from dinosaurs ; The One ( 2001 ) starring Jet Li, in which there is a complex system of realities in which Jet Li's character is a police officer in one universe and a serial killer in another, who travels to other universes to destroy versions of himself, so that he can take their energy ; and FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions ( 2004 ), the main character runs away from a totalitarian nightmare, and he enters into a cyber-afterlife alternative reality.

Political songs ( canções de intervenção ) played an important part in the protests against the totalitarian regime that ruled Portugal from 1926 up to the 1974 revolution.

On December 25, 1954, he gave an interview to The New York Times in which he characterized the situation in Yugoslavia as " totalitarian ", adding that his country was ruled by " undemocratic forces " and " reactionary elements ".

Latvia appealed the decision to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on the grounds that Latvia's emergence from totalitarian rule brought about by the occupation of Latvia had not been sufficiently taken into account, and on March 16, 2006, the court ruled 13-4 that Zhdanok's rights had not been violated.

In the future depicted in this series, mankind is ruled by a brutal authoritarian totalitarian government known as the Plan of Man, enforced by a computerized surveillance state.

But this was only accomplished by excessive cruelty and extremes of totalitarian despotism.

Van Vogt was also profoundly affected by revelations of totalitarian police states that emerged after World War II.

And the truth is that it survived as long as it did only because it was propped up by unprecedented totalitarian political power.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell described a totalitarian government that controlled thought by controlling language, making certain ideas literally unthinkable.

This is not the same as the use of force to maintain power, as is practiced by authoritarian or totalitarian rulers.

" Marcuse's 1965 essay " Repressive Tolerance ", in which he claimed capitalist democracies can have totalitarian aspects, has been criticized by conservatives.

The totalitarian regime was pressured by the US and Europe and also by the hate of its own people.

" But Maloy adds that " The totalitarian thesis in Rousseau studies has, by now, been discredited as an attribution of real historical influence .” Arthur Melzer, however, while conceding that Rousseau would not have approved of modern nationalism, observes that his theories do contain the " seeds of nationalism ", insofar as they set forth the " politics of identification ", which are rooted in sympathetic emotion.

This abuse of Marx's thought is perhaps most clearly exemplified in Stalinist Marxism, described by critics as the " most widespread and successful form of mass indoctrination ... a masterly achievement in transforming Marxism into the official ideology of a consistently totalitarian state.

It is the language used by people in a totalitarian world called Paradyzja, in Zajdel's 1984 book of the same name.

State-sponsored public art expressions, particularly murals, are often used by totalitarian regimes as a tool of mass-control and propaganda.

The big picture, they would say, justified the tortures carried out by the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship as it served to weaken the totalitarian Communist camp and in time bring about the freedom of those under its domination.

The government became increasingly totalitarian, and resistance movements, encouraged by Ethiopia, sprang up across the country, eventually leading to the Somali Civil War.

In 1993, Sudan transformed into an Islamic totalitarian single-party state as al-Bashir abolished the Revolutionary Command Council and created the National Islamic Front ( NIF ) with a new parliament and government obtained solely by members of the NIF, and proclaimed himself President of Sudan.

For this reason, Communist regimes influenced by Stalin have been widely described as totalitarian.

Anarchists are critical of the statist, totalitarian nature of Stalinism, as well as its cult of personality around Stalin ( and subsequent leaders seen by anarchists as Stalinists, such as Mao ).

Levashovo_Memorial_Cemetery | Moloch of Totalitarianism – memorial of victims of repressions exercised by totalitarian regimes, at Levashovo, Saint Petersburg.

European colonialism, followed by some of the totalitarian regimes in West Africa, have tried to suppress Vodun as well as other African indigenous religions.

From 1922 to 1925, the Fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy with a nationalist, totalitarian, and class collaborationist agenda that abolished representative democracy, repressed socialist, left wing and liberal forces, and pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at forcefully forging Italy as a world power — a " New Roman Empire ".

In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler created a totalitarian single-party state led by the Nazis.

The international political scene in the late 1930s was marked by growing intolerance between the principal figures, by the aggressive attitude of the totalitarian regimes and by the certainty that the order set up after World War I was losing its strongholds and its sponsors were losing their strength.