Hannah Arendt’s Critical Realism: Power, Justice, and Responsibi

Hannah Arendt Documentary Warns of Totalitarianism - San Diego Jewish World

Arendt: “Propaganda provided the foundations for building totalitarian power. The Nazis translated the propaganda lies of the movement into a functioning reality. Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. The Nazis act as though the world were dominated by the Jews and needed a counter-conspiracy to defend itself.”

Hannah Arendt’s Critical Realism: Power, Justice, and Responsibi

By the end of World War II, Hannah Arendt recognized that the emergence of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia had introduced state-organized terror and mass murder on a scale that defied comprehension. The “actions” of these totalitarian regimes, she...