dvtimes
05-24-07, 12:34 PM
If you read the definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism) its realy interesting.
"The most influential scholars of totalitarianism, such as Karl Popper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper), Hannah Arendt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt), Carl Friedrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich), Zbigniew Brzezinski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski), and Juan Linz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Linz) have each described totalitarianism in a slightly different way. Common to all definitions is the attempt to mobilize entire populations in support of the official state ideology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology), and the intolerance of activities which are not directed towards the goals of the state, entailing repression or state control of business (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business), labour unions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_union), churches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church) or political parties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party). Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power) by means of secret police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_police), propaganda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda) disseminated through the state-controlled mass media (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media), personality cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_cult), regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech), single-party state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-party_state), the use of mass surveillance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance), and widespread use of terror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism) tactics."
It descibes Labour to me.
"The most influential scholars of totalitarianism, such as Karl Popper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper), Hannah Arendt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt), Carl Friedrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich), Zbigniew Brzezinski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski), and Juan Linz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Linz) have each described totalitarianism in a slightly different way. Common to all definitions is the attempt to mobilize entire populations in support of the official state ideology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology), and the intolerance of activities which are not directed towards the goals of the state, entailing repression or state control of business (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business), labour unions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_union), churches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church) or political parties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party). Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power) by means of secret police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_police), propaganda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda) disseminated through the state-controlled mass media (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media), personality cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_cult), regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech), single-party state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-party_state), the use of mass surveillance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance), and widespread use of terror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism) tactics."
It descibes Labour to me.