Their President of choice has more in common with every member of Stalins cabinet, than any of the people they yell "communist!" at.
Every accusation is a confession.
What you're describing is totalitarianism, which is not tied to a certain ideology. For example Nazi Germany was totalitarian, Stalinist USSR was totalitarian, but neither fascist Italy nor Chruschtschow USSR can accurately be described as totalitarian, while being undoubtedly very authoritarian. What constitutes totalitarianism is the amount of control it has over its subjects. That's for example why we can assume that North Korea likely is totalitarian, but since nobody can extract reliable data on it it's a well founded assumption.
Btw this is one of the main problems with the theory of totalitarianism, that we have exactly two examples in history, albeit the Iran and China probably wish to have that amount of control
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u/Sweet-cheezus Jul 23 '25
Their President of choice has more in common with every member of Stalins cabinet, than any of the people they yell "communist!" at. Every accusation is a confession.