TOTALITARIAN STATE:

NAZISM, FASCISM AND

COMMUNISM.
 This term was coined by Benito Mussolini in I early 1920s. He
says that “all within the state, none outside the state, none
against the state.”
 Totalitarian is a form of government that theoretically permits
no individual freedom and seeks to subordinate all aspects of
individual life to the authority of the state.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TOTALITARIANISM AND DICTATORSHIP.
TOTALITARIANISM
Totalitarianism
is generally based upon some
hegemonic political ideology.
In totalitarianism governance is a reflection of the
ruling party’s will.
Totalitarianism is all about controlling everything
by a party in the disguise of the state.
In totalitarianism the ruling party is chosen by the
people in the absence of any alternative political
party, which they think is better than the multi-
party system.
Totalitarianism is scope-of-the-government-
centric.
In totalitarianism absolute power remains with
the highest decision-making body of the party.
DICTATORSHIP
 Dictatorship may or may not base upon such
ideology.
 In dictatorship an individual’s will is
reflected in governance.
 Dictatorship is all about acquiring power
without the consent of people and sticking to
power by means fair or dark.
 In dictatorship the dictator is not chosen but
is self-appointed, or the people are forced to
choose.
 In a dictatorship, absolute power remains
with the individual dictator with sub-
ordinate power to the coterie.
 OPPRESSIVE
SINGLE PARTY
GOVERNMENT
.
• Soviet union under
joseph Stalin.
• Nazi Germany under
Adolf Hitler
• The people republic of
China under Mao
Zedong.
• North Korea under Kim
dynasty.
 FEATURES OF TOTALITARIAN
STATE.
 It glorifies instincts and emotions.

 Totalitarianism is reaction against democracy and socialism.

 Its is enemy of freedom and regards the concept of individual liberty.

 Aggressive nationalism, militarism and expansionism.

 War was inevitable as it is final arbiter of good and bad, superior and inferior, and
permanent and transitory.
 Substitute of religion.

 Propaganda and terror as twin instrument to mobilize people.

 Accompanied by device of fear and terror.

 Preaches might is right no place for moral law.

NAZISM.
HISTORICAL
The political principles of
the National Socialist
German Workers' Party.

DEROGATORY
Extreme racist or
authoritarian views or
behavior.
FEATURES OF NAZISM.
 It was totalitarian.
 Nazi Germany was a one-party state.
 It was a folk state.
 The state was based upon the “leader principle”.
 Private individual is subservient to the political state.
 Lebensraum.
 A fundamental belief in the superiority of the Aryan race.
PRINCIPLE OF NAZISM.
 Authoritarianism
 Totalitarianism
 Nationalism
 Militarism
 Expansionism
 A third way
 Economic sovereignty
 Traditionalism
 Racial theories
 Volk gemeinschaft
FASCISM.
Fascism is an authoritarian
nationalist political ideology
that promotes the nation above
the individual, and that stands
for a centralized autocratic
government controlled by a
dictatorial leader, severe
economic and social regulation,
and powerful suppression of
opposition.
 FEATURES OF FASCISM.
 Powerful and continuing nationalism.
 Disdain for the recognition of human rights.

 Identification of enemies.
 Supremacy of the military.
 Rampant sexism.

 Controlled mass media.

 Obsession with national security.

 Religion and government are intertwined.

 Corporate power is protected.
 Labour power is suppressed.

 Disdain for intellectuals, centers of education, and the arts.

 Obsession with crime and punishment.
 Rampant cronyism and corruption.
 Fraudulent election.
 Advantages of Fascism.
 It prioritizes the welfare of the country.
 It promotes socio-economic equality.
 It improves peace and order.
  It promotes national pride
Disadvantages of fascism.
 It paves the way to the abuse of power.
 It prevents people from enjoying free
speech.
 It can widen the divide between the rich
and the poor.
 It can damage the country’s economy.
  It can be used to abuse certain groups
of people.
 It can drain the country’s funds.
COMMUNISM
 MARXISM-LENINISM.
 Marxism-Leninism is an adaptation of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin,
which led to the first successful communist revolution in Lenin's Russia in
November 1917. 
  The core ideological features of Marxism-Leninism include the belief that a
revolutionary proletarian class would not emerge automatically from
capitalism.
 Marxism-Leninism in the Soviet Union was a selected mix of the prolific
writings of Marx and Lenin, in addition to inclusions made by Soviet political
authorities. Marxism-Leninism was both the official ideology of the Soviet
Union and the most influential strain of Marxism.
 LENINISM.
 It can be explained as the political theory that works towards the
organization of a vanguard party that is revolutionary and achieves to
attain dictatorship of the proletariat in order to establish socialism.
 According to Lenin, the Communist party consisted of a scientific
understanding of history and a society guided by Marxist principles.
They were deeply committed to ending capitalism and replacing it with
socialism.
STALIN'S REGIME.
Stalinism, the method of rule, or policies, of Joseph Stalin, 
Soviet Communist Party and state leader from 1929 until his death in 1953.
Stalinism is associated with a regime of terror and totalitarian rule.
 COMMUNIST BLOCK
 Countries after the end of World War II, which became linked by adherence
to the ideology and practice of communism, as developed by Vladimir Lenin
 and Josef Stalin and their successors in the Soviet Union.
 The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc, the Socialist Bloc, and
the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern
Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia under the control and influence of the
Soviet Union and its ideology (Marxism–Leninism) imposed upon them.
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COMMUNISM UN
ERSTWHILE USSR.
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