Totalitarian left regimes often work to provide for all citizens equally, taking away the desperate struggle for survival and freeing up more time for creative and relaxing pursuits.
Totalitarian right regimes are less poggers, unless you happen to agree with the government, which will usually be facist.
To be more authoritarian (the most extreme end of which is totalitarian) is just to have more government control, while to be the opposite, libertarian, is to have less government control.
