totalitarian state
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state.
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals the technique of the marketplace.
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.