Totalitarianism, and the practices of principles of a totalitarianism regime are based off of absolute or ‘total’ control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. Hannah Arendt descries totalitarianism as control by total terror and is hidden behind a simple leader who presents an idea to the public that promises protection from insecurity and danger. The two may seem similar but there is one large difference. Hannah Arendt was not sure that genocide was a side effect of totalitarianism, when even in Nazi Germany that was in fact the case, she describes a totalitarianism government similar to Stalinism, an ideology generated by Joseph Stalin with a principle of communism characterized by the extreme suppression of political and ideological views by the concentration of power in one person aggressively.
Totalitarianism is similar to several other forms of dictatorships like …show more content…
Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union are not the same as Kin Jong-Un’s North Korea today. Personally I think that North Korea operates in the same function as the Stalinist Soviet Union. Annabel Herzog points out in her essay that “Hannah Arendt’s views on totalitarianism are based off of a fear of a leader” so good cause of course, Hitler was not a man to ignore, especially if you thought for a moment you might be on his hit list. Dan Stone operates at a different level of basement; “Arendt puts forward the 'boomerang thesis ', suggesting that the roots of European totalitarianism, especially Nazism, lay in overseas colonialism” expressing that there are different ways that it comes about. She sees that totalitarianism is more formatted towards the fear of a leader, and is backed up by how they produce an idea, that promises freedom from a fear that the entire country is wary of, but in tern like most politicians, those promises have holes, and are never
Totalitarianism is similar to several other forms of dictatorships like …show more content…
Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union are not the same as Kin Jong-Un’s North Korea today. Personally I think that North Korea operates in the same function as the Stalinist Soviet Union. Annabel Herzog points out in her essay that “Hannah Arendt’s views on totalitarianism are based off of a fear of a leader” so good cause of course, Hitler was not a man to ignore, especially if you thought for a moment you might be on his hit list. Dan Stone operates at a different level of basement; “Arendt puts forward the 'boomerang thesis ', suggesting that the roots of European totalitarianism, especially Nazism, lay in overseas colonialism” expressing that there are different ways that it comes about. She sees that totalitarianism is more formatted towards the fear of a leader, and is backed up by how they produce an idea, that promises freedom from a fear that the entire country is wary of, but in tern like most politicians, those promises have holes, and are never