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Qte from William Penn
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! style="font-size:120%; background:red; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | God vs. tyrants
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| style="padding:15px;" |''"Men must be governed by [[God]] or they will be ruled by [[Tyranny|tyrants]]."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[William Penn]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The marketing of evil: How radicals, elitists, and pseudo-experts sell us corruption disguised as freedom |author=David Kupelian |publisher=WND Books |year=2005 |pages=176 |isbn=978-1-58182-459-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQpXAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> </div>
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'''Totalitarianism''' is a political ideology which dictates the supremacy of the state over the individual freedoms of its citizens. A totalitarian state usually requires a defining ideology with which to justify its appropriation of the levers of power: extreme nationalism was the driving force behind [[Nazism]]; [[Marxism]] in the case of the Soviet Union; and fundamentalist [[Islam]] in the case of a [[theocracy]] such as [[Iran]]. [[China]] offers an interesting example of a totalitarian regime that has abandoned the practical ramifications of its ideology (Marxism), whilst retaining the power structures thus derived.
'''Totalitarianism''' is a political ideology which dictates the supremacy of the state over the individual freedoms of its citizens. A totalitarian state usually requires a defining ideology with which to justify its appropriation of the levers of power: extreme nationalism was the driving force behind [[Nazism]]; [[Marxism]] in the case of the Soviet Union; and fundamentalist [[Islam]] in the case of a [[theocracy]] such as [[Iran]]. [[China]] offers an interesting example of a totalitarian regime that has abandoned the practical ramifications of its ideology (Marxism), whilst retaining the power structures thus derived.
==See Also==
==See Also==
* [[Gleichschaltung]]
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
* [[Political spectrum]]
* [[Political spectrum]]