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Totalitarianism is a political concept of a mode of government that prohibits opp

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olerate some pluralism in social organization, lack the power to mobilize the entire population in pursuit of national goals, and exercise power within relatively predictable limits.

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Understanding what authoritarianism is | University of Amsterdam | Political Science Department

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What is it? (explanation)
political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned

What we found? (Articles)
https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/socialism
Socialism describes any political or economic theory that says the community, rather than individuals, should own and manage property and natural resources.While Saint-Simon argued for a system where the state controls production and distribution for the benefit of all society’s members, both Fourier and Owen (in France and Britain, respectively) proposed systems based on small collective communities, not a centralized state.

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whats going on now? (current events)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/467128-the-return-of-socialism-is-about-the-political-divide
Young people are talking about socialism and how they want it to change Americas economic system. As well as the governments ideas to young people which is embracing socialism. They are trying to  tax rich people and trying to divide the country and adapt laws that other foreign countries have on there wealthier people.

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What is it? (explanation)
Totalitarianism is a political concept of a mode of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.

What we found? (Articles)
In the article of https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/books/review/stalin-hitler-totalitarianism.html, Author Strobe Talbott discusses about how a hundred years ago, a malignant form of governance, both modern and barbaric, slouched towards St. Petersburg to be born. As it grew, it swept across Eurasia, enveloping the largest territorial state on the planet and cloning itself elsewhere. As the decades passed, the monstrosity was given a name: totalitarianism.

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https://study.com/academy/lesson/totalitarianism-definition-characteristics-examples.html

whats going on now? (current events)

It has been the destiny of Venezuela to bounce between the extremes of oppression and freedom. The crisis now convulsing the country follows this historical pattern. Every day, Venezuelans of all stripes pour into the streets protesting the loss of their freedom and their constitutional rights by a tyrannical regime that condemns them to scarcity, illness, malnutrition and outright hunger.

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What is it? (explanation) A political theory, advocating class war and leading into a society.
What we found? (Articles)

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Communism.html

before the Russian Revolution of 1917, “socialism” and “communism” were synonyms.
The mechanism of Stalin’s “terror famine” was simple.
Like most contemporary socialists, Lenin believed that socialism could not be attained without violent revolution.
Collectivization reduced total food production.

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https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera/postwar-era/v/communism
whats going on now? (current events)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cadet-us-army-che-guevara-tshirt-spenser-rapone-kicked-out-west-point-fort-drum-a8406641.html- Che Guereva shared a message saying " Communism will win", discharged from the army.  In a video, Spenser Rapone opens his dress uniform to reveal a T-shirt with a red image of Argentine Marxist Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, one of the world’s most famous revolutionaries in one of the photos which were taken at his graduation in May 2016,he also raises his fist and flips over his cap to expose a hand-written message saying “communism will win”

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What is it? (explanation)
Enforcement or advocacy of strict authority at the expense of personal freedom. The rejection of liberal values by Russia and china, also upon the other authoritarian states, had been a permanent fixture of global politics .

What we found? (Articles)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/authoritarianism
Authoritarian leaders often exercise power arbitrarily and without regard to existing bodies of law, and they usually cannot be replaced by citizens choosing freely among various competitors in elections.It also differs from totalitarianism, however, since authoritarian governments usually have no highly developed guiding ideology, tolerate some pluralism in social organization, lack the power to mobilize the entire population in pursuit of national goals, and exercise power within relatively predictable limits.
whats going on now? (current
events) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/05/hong-kong-emergency-law-marks-start-of-authoritarian-rule Hong Kong is trying to pass the. But people are protesting against the ban of face masks.Government officials closed down schools and shopping centers to prepare for the protests.The people are also protesting since the government has more power and trying to set there people up for war.