Totalitarianism and authoritarianism though are close to each other, still are two different systems. In an authoritarianism system one person rules the whole country. This person can be a president, prime minister, king, etc. They hold to their position until they can no longer stay in the office, and usually they turn the power to their son before they die. In totalitarianism on the other hand, a specific party controls the power. They work together as a party to do whatever it takes to avoid leaving the power, and when the leader is no longer able to lead, another person from the same party with the government gets in the office. Because of these differences, the authoritarianism is more dangerous than the totalitarianism and is more likely to turn to democracy since one person is the only one decision maker who is likely to be thrown by his people one day. …show more content…
In other words, the totalitarianism is a party of multiple dictators, and it is very difficult for the people who live under totalitarianism to get rid of their government. In addition, government gives a lot of money and power to some of the people who are loyal to it, and in turn, those people support the party in many different ways like, providing information about people who are against the party, supporting the party on the media, etc. One example of the totalitarianism is China. The Communist Party of China controls everything in China for many years, and it does not give its people full freedom because it is worry about people to campaign against