Guitarsophist on Nostr: nprofile1q…vr5mx I'm not sure about our terms here. Stalin was totalitarian and ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqlzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7q9vr5mx (nprofile…r5mx) I'm not sure about our terms here. Stalin was totalitarian and Stalin with today's technology would really put the "total" in totalitarian. Big Brother in 1984 is totalitarian. That means total control of the minds and bodies of the citizens. Umberto Eco says, "If by totalitarianism one means a regime that subordinates every act of the individual to the state and to its ideology, then both Nazism and Stalinism were true totalitarian regimes." He argues that Mussolini's fascism was not totalitarian, in part because it didn't have a coherent ideology. Eco has 14 points that define fascism, too much to outline here, but his essay on Ur-Fascism, published in the New York Review of Books in 1995, is certainly worth reading.

Anyway, it is possible to have a fascism that is not totalitarian, and while both are bad, totalitarianism is worse.