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Chapter 9 Of The Origin Of Totalitarianism

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Recently, there were discussions with President Trump’s decision on cracking down which illegal immigrant is currently living in the US. And that if they have a criminal record, they will then be deport them back to where they come from. But what most would not think of the different outcomes that would intake. Through these philosophers Hannah Arendt, Mill Stuart, and Hobbes beliefs, we are able to see the connections to this current political issue. As Hannah Arendt explain in chapter 9 of The Origin of Totalitarianism, on the idea of where did totalitarian regime all started from, “ Nothing perhaps illustrates the general disintegration of political life better than this vague, pervasive hatred of everybody and everything, without a focus …show more content…

Your own individuality will always remain the most important opinion out there. Most people are usually under peer pressure and felt that in order to fit in or be included in society, they would need to hide their true self. And submit themselves to those who are stronger and have a higher role than yourself. A great example of this situation would be a group of friends, as how there is always that one person leading the whole group. If one does not listen to their commands, they will easily be shunned or bullied. Which shows the struggles of people to always find their place in society. Showing quite some similarity to the illegal immigrants, they would have to do what they can to fit into the new society. Most would be attacked by their nationality because they would not belong here. They would not know where to go to once they have been kicked out of where they are. With President Trump making decisions like this, the immigrants would not know what to they do. All day long, they would just have to terrified of getting removed from their peaceful home. Instead of having these recurring situations, everybody should agree with Mill’s belief because individuality is important and needed for any occasion. Everybody should learn to accept each other no matter how they behavior or think. Nobody is able to have the same mind as the person next to them, so of course it is obvious for everybody to have different thoughts and

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Everyone would learn to sympathize and walk in other people’s shoes. Neighbors in America mostly keep to themselves in fear of bothering the people around them, but Americans need to see that whether they are Middle Class or millionaires, they need to look past people’s outside layer and political beliefs and instead look at them as human beings. As expressed in Monica’s isolation which is a result of her condescending nature, most Americans have an inability to accept being surrounded by people who they feel are inferior to themselves, because of personal insecurities, which is not of help to American communities or

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Totalitarianism is when the government controls every aspect of the public and private sectors. It means to erase the line that separates government and society. There were three leaders known to fit the mold of totalitarians. Adolph Hitler of Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.

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Adolf Hitler's regime in Nazi Germany is considered one of the most egregious examples of totalitarianism in modern history. Totalitarianism is a political system that strives to control all aspects of citizens' lives, including their thoughts and behavior, through the use of a single-party dictatorship. In this essay, we will examine how Hitler's rule in Nazi Germany exemplified totalitarianism. The first characteristic of totalitarianism is the use of propaganda to control the masses.

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Totalitarian governments, such as Nazi Germany, and their use of controversial techniques in order to rise power are significant influences on literature, creating parallels between it and novels such as 1984 by George Orwell. The system deployed by the Nazi regime in order to rise to power was undoubtedly, while immoral, very effective in eliciting the results desired by its enforcers. State sponsored murder or execution, prevalent in both Nazi Germany and 1984, were utilized by the government to incite hatred within its citizens. Big Brothers overbearing presence in the citizens lives strikingly resembles the relationship that dictators such as Adolf Hitler held with countries through implementation of similar propaganda techniques seen in

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It's better to be an individual than act like everyone else. This was proven by Jerry Spinelli in the novel Stargirl. Stargirl was an individual who everyone thought was weird. She did whatever she felt like instead of acting like everyone else. She didn't care what other people think about her.

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In “Imagining the Immigrant: Why Legality Must Give Way to Humanity,” which is an article that publish on America Magazine, John J. Savant presents a unique perspective of the unbalanced immigration system in the United States. In the article, Savant emphasizes the significance of using immigrant laws to protect the rights of immigrants in the United States. He refers the “moral imagination” as the key to resolve the failure of immigration in America, but “law” as the chain that is fastened around those desperate immigrants’ necks. First of all, Savant argues that people choosing immigration are usually out of desperation by saying, “…but when populations begin to cross borders in significant numbers, it is almost always out of dire economic

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Throughout history governments have evolved in their laws and ruling tactics. It has also changed the way literature has been portrayed to the readers. This essay is based on Totalitarian government. Totalitarianism is a form of government that whereabouts the fact that the ruler and government is an absolute control over the state. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini are some of the dictators that had total control over the people and state.

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The totalitarianism in Nazi Germany was mainly formed by Hitler's rule and how he eventually became a dictator. Nazi Germany displayed many traits of totalitarianism. One of these traits was how it was illegal and punishable by death to be apart of any other political party other than the Nazi party. Another trait was how Nazi's did not allow the change of government by anyone else, and made themselves the only political party allowed in Germany. Nazi Germany exhibited a trait of totalitarianism by making it illegal to join a political party besides the Nazi party.

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The Third Reich, referring to Hitler’s reign and Germany being under Nazi rule between the years 1933-1945, is often referred to as a totalitarian state. A totalitarian state is a system of government in which all power is centralized and does not allow any rival authorities, and the state controls every corner of individual lives with absolute power. Nazi Germany has been referred to as an excellent example of this type of government. This essay will analyse five aspects of Nazi Germany to determine whether it truly exhibited the totalitarian style of government.

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With the goal of seizing the big picture, it provides an attempt to grasp the causal chains in the radicalization that eventually turned into the physical killing of millions of Jews, gypsies, political prisoners, homosexuals…, and using that to explain the extend of the role Hitler plays in the Holocaust. The basis of its argument relies strongly on the theories presented in Michael Mann's The Dark Side of Democracy, which details the ways in which genocide is a modern phenomenon with strong links to democracy, and in Hannah Ardent's Origin of Totalitarianism, a pillar work in the studying of the formation and structure of the totalitarian

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The article “Obama struggling with immigration rules and cruelties of deportation” by David Nakamura looks at these issues especially from the immigrants’

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Radical evil," in her view, involves the systematic destruction of the foundations of human existence and the reduction of human beings to mere objects. Arendt argued that the Nazi regime and Stalinist communism represented radical evil because they sought to destroy human individuality and dignity on a massive

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Paper Four “To be superfluous means not to belong to the world at all” – (pp 475) Arendt views large, superfluous masses of people as a necessary precursor for the transition from a totalitarian movement to a totalitarian rule. These masses, formed from the atomization of the class system in a society, serve several purposes which allow for successful totalitarian rule: they help to act as the popular lever by which a totalitarian movement may secure power, they carry out the rote functions of the totalitarian rule, and most critically, they are killed or imprisoned in droves as a means of demonstrating and employing the power of the totalitarian system. This final purpose, the continual destruction of random portions of the atomized masses,

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Hannah Arendt one of the most influential scholars who defines Nazism as totalitarianism and describes totalitarianism as a novel form of government and domination (Arendt, 1953 : 303). Arendt explains how totalitarianism operates to transform the society into a total domination as follows, Wherever it rose to power, it developed entirely new political institutions and destroyed all social, legal and political institutions and destroyed all social, legal and political traditions of the country... totalitarian government always transformed classes into masses, supplanted the party system, not by one-party dictatorships, but by a mass movement, shifted the center of power from the army to the police, and established a foreign policy openly directed towards world domination (Arendt, 1953 : 303). Thus, according to Arendt, totalitarianism is “a chaotic, non-utilitarian, manically dynamic movement of destruction” (Canovan, 1999 : 26).

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Totalitarianism in 1984 and the Real World The concept of a totalitarian society is a major theme throughout the novel 1984. This theme of totalitarianism can also be applied to the world today. The definition of totalitarianism, a concept used by some political scientists, is a state which holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. Totalitarianism can be related between the novel 1984 and current events in the real world. George Orwell incorporated the theme of totalitarianism into his novel 1984 to display the ever changing world around him during the time it was written.

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