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Totalitarianism: According to Hannah Arendt (1949), totalitarianism is the total claim that totalitarian regimes make on their populations. The comprehensiveness of this control and manipulation politicises all facets of social experience whilst simultaneously extracting the organised consent of the populace in accordance with pre-set ideological goals. According to Jeane Kirkpatrick (1990), in defining totalitarianism; the ruling ideology requires that every aspect of an individual's life become subordinated to the state, including education, occupation, income, recreation and religion, often even including family relationships. Personal survival links to the regime's survival, and thus the concepts of “the state" and "the people" become merged. This is also called the carceral state; like a