mr Essays (236 words) - Political Philosophy, Politics, Nazism

Totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, Italy, and Germany (by the way, all my essays are not very in depth because we have to write 2-3 600 word essays every week!) A totalitarian government is a modern autocratic regime in which the state controls all phases of society. It not only seeks to control the economical and political aspects of society, but also tries to direct the daily lives of its citizens. Totalitarianism strives to influence the attitudes, beliefs, and opinions of its people through manipulation of the press and the media. It teaches young men to value their bodies more than their minds, thus creating a politically languid mass of law-conforming puppets. Its ultimate goal is to establish amass media. Like most other totalitarian regimes, Italy under Mussolini also employed many acts of violence to insure political domination and eliminate any revolutionary conspiracies. Meanwhile, in Germany, Hitler created the totalitarianistic Nazi Party. Like the other totalitarian s ystems, Nazi Germany came about because of its promise of economic and political stability. Again, at the expense of such security was the eradication of individuality. Hitler did more than manipulating the mass media and demanding strict discipline and conformity of his citizen's. He voiced hostility towards imaginary enemies to strengthen his totalitarian ideas of nationalism and Aryan superiority. He blamed the Jews for all of Germany's economic shortcomings and strongly championed anti-Semitism. His use of violence