Totalitarian Regimes: The Negation and Destruction of Politics in Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism is the denial and absolute destruction of everything that authority (political legitimacy) guaranteed to governments, such as permanence, durability, but mainly the freedom to act and equality. In this policy of denial of the different, men are made superfluous, disposable, uniformed, animalized and denied life, with the factory of mass deaths, generated in the concentration camps. The desire of totalitarianism with the destruction of freedom and spontaneity is a cemetery of peace, in which everything that is different and contrary to its objectives must be destroyed or killed. Precisely because totalitarian regimes have been made effective in history, as the most absolute denial of politics, analyzing and understanding the phenomena that composed them is of paramount importance so that this catastrophic political experience is no longer repeated (at this moment the extreme right grows politically in the world). One of the ways to try to prevent its return, according to Arendt, is precisely to consolidate a government that is structured by a founding principle, that authority originates in it and that thus allows men spaces for the freedom of political action.