Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

This word refers to the practice, common in the 17th, 18th and early 19th century, of establishing political rule in foreign colonies.

ChauvinismĪggressive patriotism or loyalty to an in-group. The writings of Karl Marx altered the meaning slightly, opposing the bourgeoisie to the “proletariat” and claiming that society had cleaved into classes and that the bourgeoisie-who own the means of production in capital-were no longer capable of leading the revolution required by society. The word takes on a different meaning in the mid-19th century during the rise of Socialism. BourgeoisieĪ french word that literally means “city-dweller,” it is a word used to denote the class and set of values that lead the “bourgeois revolutions” of the 17th and 18th centuries (this would include the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution and, of course, the French Revolution).

BohemianĪ member of an artistic or intellectual elite who displays unconventional or transgressive social behavior. The body politic is the source of political legitimacy according to modern political economy. The people of a society considered collectively as a group of citizens who have each given up their absolute freedom as individuals in order to form a general will.

A group of individuals in relation make society a group of atomized individuals gathered together makes a mere “mass.” According to Arendt, the liquidation of the individual and society and the creation of mass of atomized individuals is the precondition for totalitarian movements. This refers to people, individuals, who have been torn from their social relations and thus cease to be individuals they are merely 'atoms.' One is only an individual in relation to society, so when one loses all his ties to his fellow man, he becomes truly atomized.

Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt