Topic > Political Theories of Hanna Arendt - 754

Arendt is a very crucial thinker. His dismissive approaches, in my understanding, resemble a theoretical-psychological framework on the one hand and a historical one on the other. Contrary to Arendt's views, totalitarianism is peculiar to the modern world. A new experience that stunned the world and left him perplexed. A phenomenon that left the world speechless, that is. The modus operandi of dominating every aspect of the state and the individual --- to unleash violence, terror and total control to mobilize the masses as a subservient force to achieve certain goals. Totalitarianism's ability to dictate the thinking of individuals and shape it into an ideology-respecting drive is quite astonishing and worrying. Is totalitarianism a decadence of our humanity? The fact that a being could possess such power is beyond justification. Indifferent artifacts are left to seek oblivion. Arendt pays insufficient attention to the psychology of totalitarian leaders and emphasizes that they do not believe in their ideology as a mere function of their movement. Is totalitarianism a new type of regime? Or has it always existed? According to some social scientists, totalitarianism has always existed in the past: tyrannies, monarchies, etc. The tools of terror have existed before, and totalitarianism is perhaps not entirely new, but it certainly reached its peak during the Second World War and its aftermath. According to Arendt, totalitarianism was composed of elements that led to the crystallization of a new phenomenon after World War I, and thus these elements provided the hidden essence of totalitarianism. Simply put, Arendt argues that 19th century imperialism made totalitarianism possible. While many... but as a means to govern the masses of people perfectly obedient to authority. Another element that makes totalitarianism unprecedented is (2) ideology. Totalitarian leaders propose a platform to mobilize the masses. Arendt emphasized a metaphorical term, “band iron.” A term in which total terror binds men together in a gigantic dimension. It holds them so tightly that they lose their essence of plurality. Ideology plays a crucial role in binding men together. A mechanism to lead the masses, to blind them and push them into submission, a bundle of submission. According to Arendt, ideology charges the totalitarian movement with a framework set in motion. When ideologies are harnessed in a totalitarian movement, logic is not seen as a necessity