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totalitarian system refers to a government or authority that has complete control over the lives of its citizens. It restricts personal freedoms, controls all aspects of society, and suppresses opposition.
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- Only in totalitarian systems is dissent a criminal offense. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Here we are urged to make a simple accommodation to the demands of what certainly we may call the unthinking members of our generation; we have an eager willingness to accept without question what appears to be their desire for an authoritative totalitarian system which has no respect for truth; we have, in fact, a shocking submission to the worst aspects of the modern mind. (religion-online.org)
- They identify among its characteristics the rise of political extremism, a revival of a no - enemies - on - the - left mentality, and an outburst of uncritical admiration for and identification with left - wing totalitarian systems such as Cuba, China, and Vietnam, whose repressive regimes were invariably depicted as victims of western (especially American) capitalism. (firstthings.com)
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