Name: Anonymous 2007-12-24 10:52
They are all about placing the entire country behind the state, but they achieve this in a number of different ways. Love one with extremist vigour or hate them all none can deny they wouldn't mind commanding their own totalitarian nightmare. So which one resonates with you the most?
Military dictatorship.
The simplest form of totalitarianism, a group of thugs organised under a general for mutual gain, taking what they want.
Monarchy.
A small militaristic aristocracy with strong codes of conduct, King and nominated heirs aimed at preventing endless military coups between powerful rivals.
Empire.
An international military juggernaut that allows it's provinces the freedom to oppress their inhabitants in their own way in exchange for taxes.
Fascism.
Structured like a monarchy except the elites are not part of a rigid aristocracy and the dictator is always absolutist. The oligarchy really don't bother hiding the fact that they're the bad guys, no codes of conduct here, fascists idealise amoral behaviour apart from the belief that sacrificing everything for the state and it's dictator is the best thing ever.
Communism.
Communism is more of an ideal used to prop up a military dictatorship than a system of government itself, whether communism is actually possible or not is up to debate. After frictions begin to develop between generals the military dictatorship it usually evolves into something resembling fascism except with fascist amoral idealism replaced by communist ideals.
Theocracy.
Similiar to communism in that an ideal is used to justify tyranny, the state does the interpreting and enforcement of it's religious laws and takes extreme measures to ensure people believe they are legitimate and believe in their religion, people are indoctrinated into believing only the state's notions of what is right and wrong are true. The nation's despot is not considerred the greatest thing ever, god is, and of course the despot interprets the word of god.
Other.
There is a whole world out there still with many new avenues to form a totalitarianism, if you have any ideas please feel free to share!
Military dictatorship.
The simplest form of totalitarianism, a group of thugs organised under a general for mutual gain, taking what they want.
Monarchy.
A small militaristic aristocracy with strong codes of conduct, King and nominated heirs aimed at preventing endless military coups between powerful rivals.
Empire.
An international military juggernaut that allows it's provinces the freedom to oppress their inhabitants in their own way in exchange for taxes.
Fascism.
Structured like a monarchy except the elites are not part of a rigid aristocracy and the dictator is always absolutist. The oligarchy really don't bother hiding the fact that they're the bad guys, no codes of conduct here, fascists idealise amoral behaviour apart from the belief that sacrificing everything for the state and it's dictator is the best thing ever.
Communism.
Communism is more of an ideal used to prop up a military dictatorship than a system of government itself, whether communism is actually possible or not is up to debate. After frictions begin to develop between generals the military dictatorship it usually evolves into something resembling fascism except with fascist amoral idealism replaced by communist ideals.
Theocracy.
Similiar to communism in that an ideal is used to justify tyranny, the state does the interpreting and enforcement of it's religious laws and takes extreme measures to ensure people believe they are legitimate and believe in their religion, people are indoctrinated into believing only the state's notions of what is right and wrong are true. The nation's despot is not considerred the greatest thing ever, god is, and of course the despot interprets the word of god.
Other.
There is a whole world out there still with many new avenues to form a totalitarianism, if you have any ideas please feel free to share!