Totalitarianism, fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism, state power, party-state, national socialism, liberal state, authoritarian regimes, Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin
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This document discusses the concept of totalitarian regimes, their characteristics, and the role of the state in such regimes, exploring the ideologies of fascism, Nazism, and Bolshevism.
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[...] The republicans wanted to impose the republic and they did it by opposing other nations. Racism, chauvinism, and xenophobia will develop with science. On va exalter au sein de la population ce qu'on appelle the conscription : to mobilize adult men to participate in war; under the AR, this was not possible in France, we had a professional army. To mobilize these soldiers, they instilled this nationalist idea as a national sentiment to exalt the population of the country to consent to the sacrifice of war. [...]
[...] The Leninist Revolution and the Party-State 1. The Contestation of the Petrovian State Old Russia, at the end of the 17th century, is like France in the Middle Ages fantasized Middle Ages). It is a country that has not experienced modernity or the Renaissance. The sovereign in Russia truly holds all the power. In the West, European sovereigns are at the top of a social, noble hierarchy, whereas in Russia, all subjects are slaves. Everyone is equal in despotism. The Tsar has full ownership of all of Russia and distributes it to his servants in exchange for services. [...]
[...] Totalitarianism tends to give shape to what democracy fails to achieve. At the source of democracy there is the rejection of a unique political incarnation, of a higher spiritual incarnation above the general will; the refusal that one man or a minority can impose a knowledge of the ultimate ends and the conduct of human politics in general. Democracy, when it functions well and is respected, allows for the containment of the unleashing of anonymous powers, and when democracy becomes dysfunctional, it is through this that Nazism and Fascism entered through election and were able to appear when the State was powerless, when liberalism was deregulated, and when democracy was no longer democratic. [...]
[...] These cooperatives being directed by the State. In the old state purely liberal is substituted a State of the national society. The State harmonizes and controls through a corporate system. Thus, fascism does not participate in Marxism in its class struggle, all social classes are equally supported. Defense of social classes without one being too dominant vis-à-vis the other. One can change class by merit. In the face of the global capitalist crisis during the interwar period : the fascist regime is seen in Italy as a providential shield. [...]
[...] Totalitarian acceleration. He will accelerate his hatred of the petit bourgeois, suppression of the formal you, adoption of the goose step (military march), introduction of the idea of defense of the race (racism was not originally part of the foundations of fascism). In 1938, he begins to exclude Jews from all official functions and starts the discrimination. In trying to bring fascism closer to Nazism, he condemns himself. III. The Nazi State National Socialism : Nazism is constructed as the synthesis of fascism and the Soviet state. [...]
