totalitarianismn.

1926 B. B. Carter tr. L. Sturzo Italy & Fascismo ix. 233 This would mark the end of Fascist ‘totalitarianism’ and the renewal of political dualism.

1937 Times 9 Nov. 12/6 Nothing could be worse than to introduce totalitarianism into literature and to try to breed in a single country races of men and women fundamentally incapable of understanding one another.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. iii. 31 It [sc. Japan] has transformed itself from tribal and feudal totalitarianism to a modern technological totalitarianism.

1952 J. L. Talmon Origins of Totalitarian Democracy 6 The starting-point of totalitarianism of the Left has been and ultimately still is man, his reason and salvation, that of the Right totalitarian schools has been the collective entity, the State.

1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 408 Soviet totalitarianism is most extreme not in the claims it makes on the utopian future, but in the violence it would do to the past, to the vital integrity of human remembrance.

1974 Guardian 2 Dec. 14/1 Most Swedish companies must have at least two elected representatives of workers on their boards of directors... Yet there was general agreement that the work place is the last bastion of totalitarianism in an otherwise democratic society.