TOTALITARIANISM

1. What is a totalitarian government?

- Is a form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that
seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individuals life to the authority of the
government. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini coined the term totalitario in the early
1920s to describe the new fascist state of Italy, which he further described as: All
within the state, none outside the state, none against the state. By the beginning
of World War II, totalitarian had become synonymous with absolute and oppressive
single-party government.
2. What are the main characteristics of a Totalitarian leader?
- They have massive cult of personality.
- They regard any opposition to them as treason, for that reason reason most of
totalitarian leaders committed the biggest genocides, for example Mao Zedong killed
approximately 80 million people and Joseph Stalin who killed approximately 20 million
people.
- They usually have anger issues.
- Usually in a totalitarian nation the leader and the military are one so the leader
always has a military uniform on like the pictures bellow.

- They have a complete disagreement to human rights.

- They are viewed as the face of the nation.
- They are very corrupt.
- They are also ultra-nationalist, for example Hitler thought German people were the
best breed of the world.
- They maintain the climate of fear, that means if someone was in disagreement with
their ideas, they usually kill him so nobody was going to be against the leader.
Sources:
BROTANNICA.COM. Totalitarianism. [Online].
https://global.britannica.com/topic/totalitarianism. [Cited on September 10th, 2016]
STUDY.COM. Characteristics of totalitarianism. [Online].
http://study.com/academy/lesson/totalitarianism-definition-characteristics-
examples.html. [Cited on September 10th, 2016]