It is the opposite of democracy which is the rule of the people. Totalitarianism is the rule of one group therefore is similar to a dictatorship. Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. Another example is the Nazis government of Germany. Communism is a form of a totalitarian government. Marxism-Leninism is another example of Totalitarianism.
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Enlightenment philosophy and Great Awakening Christianity were very different, but both influenced the American colonies and American Revolution and both frame our thinking today. The Enlightenment — so named by its own practitioners, who didn’t lack self-esteem — is best thought of as a continuation of the Renaissance we read about in Chapter 2, with a strong emphasis on the Scientific Revolution, reason, and progress. Its practitioners adhered to the scientific method of testing hypotheses through rigorous, repeatable experimentation. Ancient Greeks, inventors of the first organized sporting events (the Olympics), also promoted hard-nosed, constructive debate and organized competition in law, politics, philosophy, and science.
They would support a policy of imperialism. The late 19th century brought a larger number of people in America to the side of imperialistic action similarly to European countries throughout the 19th century. In 1898, the US engaged in the Spanish-American War and gained their first territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in addition to Cuba as a protectorate. In the same year, the US also annexed the Hawaiian islands.
