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totalism

(ˈtəʊtəˌlɪzəm)
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) politics the practice of a dictatorial one party state that regulates every form of life
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Noun1.totalism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in governmenttotalism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
ideology, political orientation, political theory - an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
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Hassan actually developed this model on Robert Jay Lifton's "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China," a study of Mao's teachings and conditioning of his entire nation to adopt communist idealism through very harsh and taxing conditions.
Unlike the overpowering results for empirically realistic versions of our decision scenarios, the EMV approach entails the Effective Weak Repugnant Conclusion even for an agent who has arbitrarily low (but nonzero) credence in the Total View and Critical Level views, and despite the fact that the Repugnant Conclusion strikes most people who are not sympathetic to Totalism as a first-order axiology as strongly repugnant.
The technology needed for them [the Right] to establish the total surveillance upon which to base their moral totalism is already available.
There is no denying that Sharia-based totalism covers all sectors of life and in particular requires the implementation of Islamic laws wherever Muslims are in power.
Marx's system is also flawed because of its drift toward totalism. The state must displace the free market in order to overcome any residue of alienation in the workplace, and the individual is always subservient to the state.
The second is in establishing the specific features of this phenomenon in conditions of Russian post totalism. The results of such consideration allow formulating some conclusions for substantiating the approaches to formation and functioning of management institutions in transition society.
The paper consists of two major parts dealing with: 1) aspects of the Lowith-Blumenberg debate and the Joachimist tertius status and 2) depicting the connections--and, at times, the concordance--between eschatology, utopianism and totalism (6) and their role in the transformation of European Christianity.
The indifference of the federal government, the totalism of military establishment and the impotence of the provincial government do not bode well for Balochistan.
Here we have that reactionary totalism in which the so-called revolutionary and status quo intermingle.