The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Book
- 1951
- #Politics #Politicalphilosophy
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the ris...
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Number of Pages: 527
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Dec 6, 2023
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"...in one form or another men must assume responsibility for all crimes committed by men, and that eventually all nations will be forced to answer for the evil committed by all others.
Tribalism and racism are the very realistic, if very destructive, ways of escaping this predicament of common responsibility. Their metaphysical rootlessness, which matched so well the territorial uprootedness of the nationalities if first seized, was equally well suited to the needs of the shifting masses of modern cities and was therefore grasped at once by totalitarianism..." - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Page 236
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Dec 28, 2023
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"The essential point is that the necessities for propaganda are always dictated by the outside world and that the movements themselves do not actually propagate but indoctrinate. Conversely, indoctrination , inevitably coupled with terror, increases with the strength of the movements or the totalitarian governments' isolation and security from outside interference." - Hannah Arendt
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jan 3, 2024
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"The positivists' conviction, as we know it from Comte, that the future is eventually scientifically predictable, rests on the evaluation of interest as an all-pervasive force in history and the assumption that objective laws of power can be discovered."