totalitarianism

totalitarian | American Dictionary

totalitarian
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/toʊˌtæl·əˈteər·i·ən/
world history
of or relating to a government that has almost complete control over the lives of its citizens and does not permit political opposition

Examples of totalitarian

totalitarian
There could be no concessions to totalitarian enemies.
I suggest that what happened then was essential in making possible the subsequent totalitarian departures.
Also, a more rounded view of privacy would also be wary of assuming that surveillance necessarily leads to totalitarian systems of control.
In such cases, freedom has capitulated to a totalitarian elite power controlling the masses through the use of technology, particularly media and surveillance technologies.
Yet these assumptions about totalitarian control pose serious problems, especially in his discussion on music.
One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state.
Liberal individualist assumptions make it difficult to distinguish among various modes of participation that may plausibly be deemed totalitarian.
The basic mechanisms linking the scientific and political systems apply as well to democratic as to authoritarian or totalitarian systems.
Conversely, those downplaying the ongoing role of the party were not necessarily less radical or totalitarian.
Fundamentally the totalitarian regime did not change, only its methods changed.
No one betrayed the secret, no one turned informant; solidarity triumphed over totalitarian authority.
But there are alternatives to such a univocal totalitarian world.
Conversely, to play up the state at the expense of the party could be radical or totalitarian.
And it was especially as a new form of political religion, he argued, that the three interwar regimes were in fact totalitarian.
And how might a totalitarian state differ from a democracy?
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