The dictator's rise to power led to Totalitarianism and a suppression of freedoms. 5 Communism An economic system where the means of production are owned communally. Under Communism, factories and industries are publicly owned. 7 Totalitarianism Governance where every aspect of public and private lif...
Totalitarianism Any government is bad Capitalists are baby-eating villains Capitalists are noble Nietzchean heroes Workers should rule Worker activism is evil The poor are oppressed The poor are pampered good-for-nothings Does this sound exaggerated? Let's listen to Murray Rothbard: ...
In his very first book, “The End of Economic Man,” Peter Drucker analyzed the causes of totalitarianism, the insecurity, fear, depression and unemployment, the demons as he put it, that created the conditions for the emergence of a dictator. Joseph Maciariello was a friend and colleague ...
and that the public’s habitually short attention span will wash away the world’s horror at the crimes we are all witnessing, that may be yet another serious misjudgment. As Hannah Arendtwrotein 1950 in the preface to "The Origins of Totalitarianism": ...
The competing hierarchical government systems suffer from significant defects. Hannah Arendt, who famously studied the rise of fascism in the 20thcentury, explained, “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose...
most representative democracies employ citizen participation as a tool for social and political reform. In the United States, for example, so-called “grassroots” citizen participation causes such as theCivil Rights Movementof the 1960s have led elected officials to enact laws implementing sweeping so...
" which means "power or authority."Thus, a democracy refers to a type of government where the power to govern rests with a country's people rather than a ruling family (amonarchy) or a single individual (totalitarianism).That means that citizens control how their government operates, usually...
led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their pain make a moc...
those you don’t have commonality with are your out-group. It takes time and energy to expand your out-group to “all of humanity.” As we saw in the past in Germany and Russia, a tight-knit in-group can easily lead to totalitarianism. There are no easy answers, but you should be...
human farmer, symbolizing the overthrow of the Russian monarchy, and establish their own government based on the principles of Animalism, symbolizing the establishment of communism in Russia. But the new ruling class becomes just as corrupt and oppressive, showing the dangers of totalitarianism. ...