ABSTRACT
ANOTHER and new phase in the evolution of collective violence is marked by the appearance of total war. Totalitarianism can be defined as the supreme mobilization of national resources for war efficiency. It revives revolution as the means of change, and war as the only instrument of international policy, in face of the fact that the common interests of a nation rule out war. The avowed ends of totalitarianism are world domination, and the imposition of National Socialism on humanity as a whole. This is not a temporary condition, for the purposes and during the time of preparedness and war, but a complete reconstruction of humanity and civilization. It is the extreme example of aggressive nationalism or imperialism bent on conquest. To live, totalitarianism has to create crises where these do not exist.
