Key insights from
The Origins of Totalitarianism
What you'll learn
As a political philosopher and German Jew during the rise of Nazism, Hannah Arendt had a lot to say about totalitarianism and the elements that give rise to such movements.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Totalitarian movements transform classes into masses.
- 2 A movement doesn’t depend on any one particular leader but on a frenzy of continuing momentum.
- 3 Totalitarian governments are far more likely to arise in nations with large populations.
- 4 A strange bond between society’s mob elements and elites temporarily forms and fuels totalitarian movements.
- 5 The goal of propaganda is not persuasion but organization.
- 6 Unlike religious fanatics, the surrendered Nazis did not die like martyrs.
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