jan 6, 1951 - "The Origins of Totalitarianism" -- Hannah Arendt

Description:

Compares Stalin and Hitler during a time when documents about Stalinist society were not available to Western scholars. Doesn't draw on empirical evidence and compares the two as fundamentally similar under the umbrella of totalitarianism. Concerned with ideology and argues that totalitarian society consists of masses that are fundamentally classless and leads to a fractured sense of belonging and identity -- the atomization of society and fundamental loneliness of the individual.