Totalitarianism is a form of representation of a tyrant who manifests as a concentration of power in a government, this totalitarianism can be presented in the form of legal, tyrannical or dictatorial government. the legal can be from the monarchies to the same democracies, the tyrant accedes to power at first under the eye of the state he is trying to control, on the other hand, the dictator attacks from the beginning to the state. not all tyrants present totalitarianism because on occasion they are puppets of a concentration of major power as in the case of the banana republics. it should be clarified that acceptance and even the same concept of tyrant varies according to the mentality and the era of people and governments. from the 4th century AD in Europe the monarchist governments were conceived as fair governments for being based on mandates divine but, from the 18th century onwards with the beginning of the French revolution they were labeled as tyrants the conception of tyrants are very ambiguous even under the idea of centralization of power, a monarchy in the eyes of democracies is tyrannical for concentrating power in a man generating what is called an autocracy (government of one) but, a democracy which invokes the defense of individual freedoms but represses any expression of it it is not as are the cases of militar and political repression in a large part of the countries.
Authoritarian governments of the 20th century - Fascism - Francoist Spain
The tyrannies begin with a defiant to the principles that limit the acquired power, it is modified gradually the structure of the same state until centralizing power. they present different tyrannies accompanied by dictatorships.
Francoist Spain
Spain acquired an authoritarian regime ruled by a tyrant who remained in power since 1939 having won the civil war against the Republicans, until the end of this regime in 1976 with the transition to democracy. In Spain, a general malaise was generated due to a deep economic and political-social crisis, facing this crisis rises a figure that encompasses all the traditional ideals of a polarized Spain in a period in turn quite complex as is the second world war that more than being an armed conflict between Powers was also a fight between ideologies. Francisco Franco was a military general who under a nationalist ideology very similar to Italian fascism it mutated to become a new notation of fascism, Francoism, a type of regime that encompasses the authoritarianism of Conventional fascism together with the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany. Francoism is a clear example of repression, violence, anti-democracy, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and union.
The distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian regime is that in authoritarianism, the government does not It aims to control the private life of its citizens to the point of converting them, so compulsive, in people re-educated to spend the rest of their lives on the regime.
Conditions and Characteristics of Fascism
1. Cult of tradition, of archaic knowledge, of the revelation, received at the . dawn of the human history entrusted to the Egyptian hieroglyphs, to the runes of the Celts, to the sacred texts, still unknown, of some Asian religions. although many times traditions are the essence and many times the same identity of a community with The beginning of fascism these traditions is exalted to virtually dangerous points.
2. Rejection of modernism. The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, looks like the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense, Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism however fascism only rejects modernism that takes away its validity to his own crisis.
3. Cult of action by action. Thinking is a form of castration. That's why culture It is suspicious to the extent that it is identified with critical attitudes.
4. Rejection of critical thinking. The critical spirit operates distinctions, and distinguishing is Sign of modernity. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason. In Spain, he extolled Catholicism at fanatic levels by rejecting socialists or any figure That is associated with critical thinking.
5. Fear of difference. The first call of a fascist movement, or prematurely fascist, it is against intruders. Fascism is thus racist for definition besides having xenophobia.
“The ideal citizen”
this is established according to each regime, based on the idea of democracy a citizencommon could follow the model of Confucianism applied to the Asian worldview.
● rejection of individualism about the collective good
● preserve family values and generate tradition
● willingness to learn at all times
● have economic moderation
● job application
Effects of voter apathy.
any type of decision is accepted as it is not critical, this generates a free path to conditions of fascism. since although it seems insignificant not to accept a decision politics and voting critically is already a symbolism and follow-up of democracy and Justice.
