Posted on 01/05/2011 12:39:04 PM PST by PRePublic
Good article, thanks.
Here is an interesting article about the subject of totalitarianism by a Hannah Arendt.
http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2074&C=1914
Chapter 3: Totalitarianism: The Annihilation of Action
The recognized forms of government are few in number and have been much the same ever since the Greeks analyzed and classified them to include monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, republic, and despotism. It is Arendts claim in The Origins of Totalitarianism that totalitarianism is a new form of government, ushered onto the stage of history with the regimes of Josef Stalin and Adolph Hitler. It is not just another form of tyranny, although there are similarities, but a unique and novel development, indeed, the ultimate tyranny.
This is quite a claim -- and for those of us who are amateurs in the field of political science, accustomed to using tyranny, fascism, dictatorship, and totalitarianism interchangeably -- something of a shock.
What is it that makes totalitarianism so novel and so demonic? To Arendt totalitarianism is the total domination of a people through a combination of simplistic ideology and constant terror. It appears to no traditional laws or forms of government but rather to its own concocted Law of Nature (survival of the fittest, master race) or Law of History (a classless society and that one class the proletariat). Its goal is the extension of that total domination to the entire world.
Arendt is not speaking of German fascism or Russian communism in general but of the particular forms of government developed under Stalin and Hitler. Her chief references, however, are to the Nazi government, perhaps because in 1951, the year her book was first published, more was known of Germany than of Russia, but also because she is German and experienced first-hand the rise of Nazism...............
http://globalwatch.webs.com/viewingroom.htm
This is link to video proving this alliance of Nazis and Muslim. 4th video on the page.
Cant hide the facts forever.
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