Category:Totalitarianism in fiction

Depictions oftotalitarianisminfiction,aform of governmentand apolitical systemthat prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme and complete form ofauthoritarianism.In totalitarian states,political poweris often held byautocrats,such asdictators(totalitarian dictatorship) andabsolute monarchs,who employ all-encompassing campaigns in whichpropagandais broadcast by state-controlledmass mediain order to control the citizenry. As apolitical ideologyin itself, totalitarianism is a distinctlymodernistphenomenon, and it has very complex historical roots. PhilosopherKarl Poppertraced its roots toPlato,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's conception of thestate,and the political philosophy ofKarl Marx.