Citations:totalism

English citations of totalism

"system in which an authority wields absolute power"

• 1948, UPA in Western Europe, page 25:

  […] the U. P. A., having fought against the German totalism and still fighting against the Bolshevik totalism, […]

• 1987, Robert Jay Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima →ISBN, page 388:

  In her efforts to comprehend her loss she thought back on the events that led eventually to her son's death. Her account conveys both a vivid picture of the family dramas which could take place in the midst of the Japanese totalism of the thirties, along with her personal sense of having been victimized by male stubbornness and stupidity: […]

"totalitarianism" or "totalness"

• 1998, Jeffrey C. Isaac, Democracy in Dark Times →ISBN, page 62:

  […] essential similarity of Soviet communism under Stalin and Nazism in respect of the totalism of their power and the nihilistic manner in which it is exercised to commit bureaucratic mass murder.