Totalitarianisms

the closed society and its friends : a history of crossed languages

Fuentes, Juan Francisco

It is striking that the main political concept coined by the century of democracy has been totalitarianism. Since its birth in fascist Italy in the 1920s, the term has made a long journey throughout different countries and periods. After representing the fascination for dictatorships during the interwar years, totalitarianism became a key concept of the war of words waged between democracy and communism until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a hot word for a Cold War, as termed by the author of this book to convey the importance of this contest of crossed languages, which also included images, symbols and other forms of senso-propaganda