ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Totalitarianism is an extreme version of authoritarianism. A system of government, in which there is a single party dictatorship, the state is all powerful and the individual is subordinated to the state is known as a totalitarian regime.

Detailed explanation-2: -Characteristics. Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated and centralized government power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential challengers. It uses political parties and mass organizations to mobilize people around the goals of the regime.

Detailed explanation-3: -Totalitarianism is an authoritarian form of government in which the ruling party recognizes no limitations whatsoever on its power, including in its citizens’ lives or rights.

Detailed explanation-4: -So, the authoritarian system wants full political power, but does not go beyond that. The totalitarian rule system, on the other hand, wants power over EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. They seek power beyond governmental rule and begin to intrude into the Ideology of everyone under their rule.

Detailed explanation-5: -Both forms of government discourage individual freedom of thought and action. Totalitarianism attempts to do this by asserting total control over the lives of its citizens, whereas authoritarianism prefers the blind submission of its citizens to authority.