Totalitarianism

- The state controls EVERYTHING

- Everything is the state

- Destroy people's identity

- State Terror - Control people through fear and oppression. Show them what happens when people disobey the state - mass executions, torture, threaten their families

- Ideology - State ideas that are used to run the state and forced on the population

     - Justification of actions for authority/state

     - Frees you of common sense and reality

     - Breakdown of human world knocks down barriers of possibility and morality, paving the way for things like concentration camps

- Not comparable to tyranny as tyranny has no law

- Examples include Nazi Germany which used the law of nature and Darwin's evolutionary theories and developed them to suit their own needs.

- Another example is Soviet Russia which structured their ideology on Marx's Communist Stage Theory. This was teleological meaning that it had an absolute ending - Communism

- Banality of Evil

    - You don't have to be inherently evil to do things, just following orders

    - Eichmann trial - put on trial because he provided transport to get Jews to concentration camps, his defence was that he was just doing his job and didn't actually kill any Jews.