This was our rude awakening to life under the control
of totalitarian state government.
Not exact matches
The people you list were
totalitarian leaders
of nations who happened to head
governments that did not endorse or give support to any religion as a matter
of Marxist instruction because the
state HAD used religion since the beginning
of history to take advantage
of people.
Yet the implication is that our
government and way
of life have a monopoly on truth — an attitude characteristic
of totalitarian states, not one embodied in traditional American values.
But as laws in a traditional
government are
of a negative nature, defining the boundaries
of behavior, but insufficient in themselves to inspire it, so terror is insufficient in a
totalitarian state to motivate and guide human behavior.
If you are interested in
states where the
government handles all the affairs
of daily life (i.e., there is no private sphere) the word you are looking for is «
totalitarian».
A political regime, having
totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized
government, business - and -
government control
of the marketplace, repression
of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the
state and / or religion above individual rights.
The story takes place in the republic
of Panem, where the United
States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the
totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages
of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.
The film depicts a
totalitarian future in which the all - powerful
government of Panem (in what was once the United
States) demands an annual «tribute»
of two youths from each
of its 12 districts to fight to the death in a televised event known as the Hunger Games.
Communism: A
totalitarian system
of government in which a single authoritarian
government party controls
state - owned means
of production.
Additionally, I wonder how you have accounted for any variety
of negative externalities associated with using fossil fuels — say environmental impacts, health impacts, and the opportunity costs
of enriching the
governments of totalitarian states deny vast swaths
of their citizens access to basic civil rights — as a start.