>I think you are missing the point. They were talking about the *definition*
>of totalitarian. Totalitarian does not equate Horror. These are two
>*correlated*
>but *distinct* terms.
>
>
>Nazism was probably [Pol Pot might have been worse] the worst regime of
>human history.Totalitarianism is horrible. But a regime might be more
>totalitarian than nazism, and still be more palatable.
>
>Alberto Monteiro
And the experience of those who lived in, say, the General Government
of Poland differs in what way, exactly, from, say, Hannah Arendt's
vision of "totalitarianism"? The Enemy, the terror, the ideology, the
control and surveillance--it is all there...
Brad DeLong
