Hannah Arendt made the comments that follow in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera. TotalitarianismTotalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it
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