All totalitarianism synonyms

noun totalitarianism

• high-handedness — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
• bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
• marxism — the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.
• autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
• dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
• nazism — the principles or methods of the Nazis.
• brute force — physical strength, power
• collectivism — Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.
• garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
• authoritarianism — Authoritarianism is the state of being authoritarian or the belief that people with power, especially the State, have the right to control other people's actions.
• imperiousness — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
• absolutism — Absolutism is a political system in which one ruler or leader has complete power and authority over a country.
• fascism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
• communism — advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community
• leninism — the form of Communism as taught by Lenin, with emphasis on the dictatorship of the proletariat.
• autarchy — unlimited rule; autocracy
• oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
• megalomania — Psychiatry. a symptom of mental illness marked by delusions of greatness, wealth, etc.