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| [[File:Palazzo Braschi Fascist Poster, 1934.png|right|thumb|Façade of the Palazzo Braschi (Rome, 1934) with fascist dictator [[Benito Mussolini|Benito Mussolini's]] face. As the leader of [[Fascist Italy]], Mussolini and his ideologues used the term ''totalitarian'' to characterize his government.]] | | #REDIRECT [[Authoritarianism#Totalitarianism]] |
| '''Totalitarianism''' is a form of government in which the [[state]] has total, unrestricted control over the affairs of citizens. Totalitarianism is intimately related with [[fascism]], which represents the total merging of state and [[capital]] for the repression of the [[proletariat]] via the absolute restriction of all nominal [[Bourgeois democracy|bourgeois democratic]] civil and political freedoms.
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| <blockquote>"For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian." — Benito Mussolini</blockquote>
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| ==Usage in bourgeois academia==
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| Bourgeois academics commonly use the term "totaltarianism" to attack [[Socialist state|socialist states]] such as the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] and [[People's Republic of China]] under [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong]] respectively. However, this label is erroneous; [[Socialism|socialist]] [[democracy]] offered much greater and more meaningful freedoms in comparison to their capitalist counter-parts. This is in addition to the fact that totalitarianism is a capitalist concept.
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Authoritarianism]]
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| [[Category:Forms of government]][[Category:Refuting myths]]
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