Totalitarian Socialism

Totalitarian Socialism
Totalitarian Socialism, or Totalism, is a political ideology based upon state controlled economics, nationalism, the total involvement of the state in internal affairs and the importance of the state in preserving socialism.

This hard left and authoritarian ideology advocates a massive centralization of power instead of the more democratic support to the trade unions endorsed by syndicalism. Another central tenet of Totalism is the focus on military power and the desire to spread the ideology with force if need be.

Totalism promotes a new direction for socialism in the world, emphasising the the role of the socialist state as the core ideal of the nation while devaluing or abandoning the Marxist ideas of worker empowerment and a classless utopia. Totalists look to centralise and expand the governments' powers in socialist states, believing the goal of the government is to build socialism in the state, and often use nationalist and militarist rhetoric and policies.