/lit/ - Literature

>>15583853
Read a lot of replies that don't seem to understand the two words you use. Let me, a lefty politics graduate explain.
Totalitarianism is bad because it is an attempt to control you in your private life. Instead of just being a system of governing the country (i.e. politics) which is what democracy is, it focuses on more than that. The government control what you learn in school, what religion you have to believe in, how many kids you should have with your wife, what pasttimes you engage in. Of course the terror and violence come into it, but that's the means of totalitarianism not the end. If you want to control people TOTALLY, you need to move on from coercion and into force.
Democracy doesn't do that. You turn up every 4/5 years and put a cross in a box. No attempt to control your private life.

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