A Totalitarian State? When Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party took power in 1933, a wave of terror was begun which led to the genocide of millions of people and the destruction of much of the European continent. While the reign of the National Socialist regime has been universally recog...

Atomized and Alienated Atomized and Alienated: The Place of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in Hannah Arendt's Totalitarian Model In Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt outlines the fundamental qualities that characterize and allow the rise of a totalitarian regime. From the outset,...

Political scientists have long debated the proper course to consider, resolve, and overcome conflict so to maintain order. In particular, the conflicts of the individual vs. society – the rights of the individual vs. the rights he or she must relinquish in order to be a part of society &ndash...

In the early 1920s Mussolini was amongst the first fascists to refer approvingly to the newly emerging Italian Fascist state as 'totalitarian'. During the late 1950s and the early 1960s – particularly in a Cold War fixated America - a theory centred on totalitarianism became the ...

One of the most devastating and frightening time-periods of our history was during the Second World War, when between five and six million Jewish civilians were killed throughout Europe in a mass genocide. A large portion of the Jews were killed by the Nazis under Hitler's regime. However, tho...

Not Only for Myself In our society, people are identified by group categories. It happens everyday and has been happening since the being of time. We place others into categories based on their gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability, just to name a few. But why are we inter...

Plato Philosophies Plato was one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He is recognized all over the world as one of the greatest minds of all time. Knowledge is required under compulsion has not hold on the mind.(Durant 24). Plato's dialogues are the fruit of a rare mind; but the could no...

Plato Philosophies Plato was one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He is recognized all over the world as one of the greatest minds of all time. Knowledge is required under compulsion has not hold on the mind.(Durant 24). Plato's dialogues are the fruit of a rare mind; but the could no...