Question

How is totalitarianism important to globalization?

Answer 1

Totalitarianism, a concept deep-seated in the tragedies of the two World Wars, is one of the most misused and contested terms in the political lexicon. As is known, in very general terms totalitarianism refers to a type of regime that is extreme in its repudiation of freedom and liberties. Conceived out of the similarities supposedly shared by Nazism and Soviet Communism — Stalinism in particular — totalitarianism was thought of as a regime with deep, radical ambitions. Its chief objective is to rule totally unhampered by legal restrains, civic or social oppositions, organized pluralism or party competition. Unlike authoritarianism, totalitarian political oppression serves to refashion human reality itself. The radical nature of its purposes convinced political historians that totalitarianism represented a new form of government rather than merely an extreme version of tyranny or despotism.

totalitarianism” can designate not only a regime type in opposition to constitutional, democratic, parliamentary, and pluralistic forms, as it does for political science. It can even describe something beyond the political oppression achieved through the symbiosis between government and corporations. More radically, it has to do with the pervasive, intricate relationship between power and human life.

Globalisation and a simplistic response of regression back to an imaginary comfort zone when things were better and simpler. Globalisation itself is a complex process of historical dimensions the various stages of which may be capable of simple projections and simple interpretations which look to the untrained eye as if they are facts. In the populist reaction to this complex process of globalisation , is an absence of belief in the ethical imperative with its respect for the truth, respect for the equality of man and respect for human rights.