ABSTRACT
The roots of totalitarianism are in human nature itself. It is an ancient system of thought, a very ancient system of life. Totalitarianism denies that differences can live together, differences of faith, differences of opinion, differences of thought. It conceives the whole as the enlarged ego. To become dominant again, all that is needed is the subjection of the people to sufficient pressure, to frustration, disillusionment, and economic misery. Even a war against totalitarianism must be conducted on totalitarian lines. The ideologies may be utterly different, uterly opposed, as have been those of Nazi Germany and of Russia, but they are enlisted in the service of the same totalitarian creed. The philosophy of totalitarianism, nourishing ancient prejudices, distorts this essential quest of man for unity. The inevitable conception of totalitarianism is nation against nation; nations separate in all respects that matter, its own a proud nation, exclusive, complete, self-sufficient, and self-righteous.
