"The use of “totalitarianism” as a term to describe a political regime dates back to the 20th century, when Italian fascists characterized their model of statehood as “totalitarian.” They defined the term as an absolute loyalty of citizens to the state: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state,” in Mussolini’s words (Gurian, 1978). Zbigniew Brzezinski and Carl Friedrich characterized the totalitarian state as having a single ideology, a party with an omnipotent leader, a state-controlled economy, a monopoly on all forms of communication, control over the military, and an organized terrorizing secret police (1965)."
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