0 of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to oppose them:
1 of or relating to a government that has almost complete control over the lives of its citizens and does not permit political opposition
There could be no concessions to totalitarian enemies.
I suggest that what happened then was essential in making possible the subsequent totalitarian departures.
Also, a more rounded view of privacy would also be wary of assuming that surveillance necessarily leads to totalitarian systems of control.
In such cases, freedom has capitulated to a totalitarian elite power controlling the masses through the use of technology, particularly media and surveillance technologies.
Yet these assumptions about totalitarian control pose serious problems, especially in his discussion on music.
One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state.
Liberal individualist assumptions make it difficult to distinguish among various modes of participation that may plausibly be deemed totalitarian.
The basic mechanisms linking the scientific and political systems apply as well to democratic as to authoritarian or totalitarian systems.
