totalitarianism
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totalitarianism
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1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).
noun totalitarianisms
- A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship. And if it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible motives), it is also true that without it we might never have known the truly radical nature of Evil.
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noun system where state wields absolute control
| Español | totalitarismo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 전체주의 jeonchejuui |
| 日本語 | 全体主義 zentaishugi |
| 中文 | 極權主義 /极权主义 jíquánzhǔyì, 全體主義 /全体主义 quántǐzhǔyì |
| हिन्दी | सर्वसत्तावाद sarvasattāvād |
| Português | totalitarismo |
| Français | totalitarisme |
| Deutsch | Totalitarismus |
| Italiano | totalitarismo |
| Ελληνικά | ολοκληρωτισμός oloklirotismós |
| Română | totalitarism |
| Русский | тоталитари́зм totalitarízm |
| Tiếng Việt | chủ nghĩa toàn trị |
| العربية | شُمُولِيَّة šumūliyya |
| עברית | טוֹטָלִיטָרִיזְם totalitarízm |
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