Totalitarianism/1984

Totalitarianism is a political system that seeks dictatorship . A successful totalitarian regime's perfect result would be world domination.

Nazism and Stalinism are two examples of previous successful totalitarian regimes. Terror is an infamous method of gaining power under these regimes. Forms of terror can vary from speeches right through to genocide.

Totalitarianism is a fictional ideology, or in other words, it it completely original and not based on a prior political system. It tries to eliminate individuality from human kind to leave a 'mass' of people all sharing the same thoughts. Fear is also key. Machiavellian theorists would argue that this a good regime to a certain extent.
However, as Machiavelli once said 'Be feared, but never hated.' There is a huge chance that a totalitarian dictator will be hated, Hitler for example, was hated by the Jewish community.

An example of propaganda used by the Nazi Party to eliminate individuality is shown below.  Hitler wanted to create a superior race known as the 'Aryan Race' leaving people with 'pure German blood.'

George Orwell wrote a book called '1984'. This demonstrated how a totalitarian regime can emerge and be successful. It was set in the future, 2050. Winston Smith was the main character.

The leader of Big Brother Party created a new language called 'Newspeak.' This banned anyone was speaking in a negative way about the Big Brother Party and in turn prevented any rebellious groups from forming. Smith was against the regime but due to the laws, he had to write his thoughts down in the form of a diary rather than saying them aloud. This highlights how successful this kind of terror can be in a totalitarian regime can be. People became scared to be against the Big Brother Party, this is similar to the way the Nazi Party frightened the German people.

'Thoughtcrime' became part of society. Smith believed in the formation of 'Brotherhood.' A group of people who all shared the same ideas as him, however, he was lured into a trap and the ever watching Big Brother Party made him think this Brotherhood party existed. He was then captured and tortured with rats until his spirit had been broken. He was then forced to believe in the regime set by the Big Brother Party.

The book highlights how successful a totalitarian regime can be once they have gained power and have used terror against the population.