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…World encourages production and consumption of shallow objects to complement the shallow minds of its citizens. 1984 was written as a warning against the results of having a totalitarian state. Winston bears the blunt of his mistakes, the crime…

…of government to the governed, the rule of law through impartial judges, and the toleration of religious and speculative opinion. He is an enemy of the totalitarian state, drawing on medieval arguments and deploying them in practical, modern terms.…

…. Having obtained dictatorial powers, Hitler went on to establish a totalitarian state by dissolving all political organizations, except the Nazi party. THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES By 1934 Hitler seemed to have complete control over Germany. But he…

…and political unrest. By the 6th century BCE a majority of the most essential and powerful city-states were ruled by tyrants. Both the arts and commerce flourished under the support of these more or less benevolent totalitarians. Corinth especially prospered…

…by the military. His Fascist movement started by his belief that the proletariat should unite “in one formidable fascio” (bundle), preparatory for seizing power. Mussolini established a totalitarian state by the use of fascist ideology upon which was a one party…

…rather function in a community where these oppressors can be accepted as legitimate authority until their actions border on totalitarianism or in a community where protection of the oppressed can become the oppressor. Each sounds to be a grim proposal…

…-totalitarianism of the Terror. However, Rousseau was not writing as a tactician of revolution. He did not pretend to tell how a people should go about becoming democratic. In fact, he confused this whole issue by identifying legislative with sovereign power…

…. Resisting a totalitarian state which burns all the books, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy. There have been many recorded reactions to this book and this is just an example from a librarian: "fired off a letter of furious…

…international political venues including the depression, Nazism, totalitarianism, WWII and the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and the Cold War. Similar to the fears in Owen’s work, Auden portrayed a deep concern for the unsympathetic and disconnected attitude…

…Introduction The German Nazis of the 1930’s and 1940’s had an explicitly approved form of art. Unlike the other totalitarian regimes of the era, the approved forms of art were firmly integrated into their iconography and ideology, and excluded any…