totalitarian

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: "A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
  2. noun A practitioner or supporter of such a government.

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  • Austin Chronicle co-founder and SXSW godfather Louis Black Impassioned radio host and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones (see also: his official site) would be easy to dismiss as a crackpot if his angry philosophies-on what he might call our totalitarian world government and regularly corroded civil liberties-weren't so eloquently dispatched. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Does the word totalitarian or Hitler ring any bells in myopic land? at 04 / 05 / 2009 @ 9: 30pm —  The Nation: Top Stories
  • "Manchurian candidate", totalitarian, Marxist, etc. etc. Miss Molly, —  Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • It was the stakes and particular circumstances of this conflict, he argues, that "produced an inclination to authoritarian, totalitarian, and even fascist models of society organization [sic] among the intellectuals who belonged to the Young Effendiyya" (p. 11). —  MRZine.org
  • Then again, such a staunch totalitarian might be counterproductive in channelling a zany card like Arenas, who struggles to get stories straight with himself, much less others. —  Bullets Forever
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