It is the political blanketing of the vast range of human activities--from intimate personal relations to philosophical beliefs--that constitutes "totalitarianism". Benito Mussolini summed it up, "All through the state, all for the state, nothing against the state, and nothing outside of the state." It recognizes the individuals only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State. It is not the source or the ruthlessness of power alone which defines totalitarianism, but the unprecedented scope of the activities subjected to political control.
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