📖 Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Today’s book is:
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s definitive work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history. It begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I.
Hannah Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.
You can buy the book here (Amazon link).
It’s available on Audible as well.
Socialism, Communism,Fascism,Islamism… the toxic ideology of Collectivism. Technocratic Globalism is Extinctionism.
The pathetic scourge of antisemitism is disgusting. Scapegoating a tiny group for every grievance, and creating grievances to scapegoat a tiny group.
Hannah Arendt - so wise. Nothing unites the worst of humanity across the spectrum like virulent antisemitism.