#2,946

In modern society, capitalism is the only barrier to the spontaneous totalitarianism of the industrial system.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,657

Where even the last vestige of feudal ties disappears, the increasing social isolation of the individual and his increasing helplessness fuse him into a totalitarian mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,570

From behind the “will of all” the “general will” pokes its head out.
A “will” that is not volition, in reality, but a program. The program of a party.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 413

#2,556

Nothing more ominous than the 19th century’s enthusiasm for the “unity,” the “solidarity,” the “unanimity” of the human race.
Sentimental sketches of contemporary totalitarianism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

#2,294

In order to transform the idea of the “social contract” into an eminently democratic thesis, one needs the sophism of suffrage.
Where one supposes, in effect, that the majority is equivalent to the totality, the idea of consensus is twisted into totalitarian coercion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 372

#2,250

The worst totalitarianism is not that of a state or a nation, but of society: society as the all-encompassing goal of all goals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#1,968

Individualism is not the antithesis of totalitarianism but a condition of it.
Totalitarianism and hierarchy, on the other hand, are terminal positions of contrary movements.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,965

Socialism arose as nostalgia for the social unity destroyed by bourgeois atomism.
But it did not understand that social unity is not the totalitarian condensing of individuals, but the systematic totality of a hierarchy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,691

He who longs for “perfect communication” among individuals, their reciprocal “perfect transparency,” their mutual “perfect possession,” as a certain high priest of the left does, longs for the perfect totalitarian society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,503

Democracy has terror for its means and totalitarianism for its end.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 252

#1,425

Totalitarianism is the sinister fusion of religion and the state.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 241

#1,424

The state is totalitarian by its essence.
Total despotism is the form towards which it spontaneously tends.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 241

#481

Totalitarian society is the common name for the social species whose scientific name is industrial society.
The embryo today allows us to foresee the adult animal’s deformity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 94

#402

A totalitarian state is the structure into which societies crystallize under demographic pressures.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 82