bon moun wrote:
Totalitarian became fashionable during a period when the Soviet Union had
to be demonized, and the method of choice was to conflate it somehow with
Nazism.
Exactly right, and needs to be stressed again and again. "Totalitarianism" was
concocted as an ideological weapon , first deployed in the academic world during
the '50s. And concocted by William Y. Elliott, Adam Ulam, Hannah Arendt, picked
up by their boy Kissinger and others. The attraction that the Soviet Union had
for progressives had to be countered, and this simplistic, idealistic linking of
Communists and Nazis was carried out in mass and entertainment media ("I Led
Three Lives" and such) as well.
It was pretty effective propaganda, too, because it took advantage of real
problematic organizational and behavioral forms within the Communist states.
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