noun
totalitarianism
Totalitarianism (noun) means a system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
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A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
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Etymology
1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).
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"totalitarianism" (noun) means a system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.