Whats the difference between totalitarian and dictatorship?
I don’t know that there really is one, or are any. They both have to do with the contrasting idea of consent by the governed (which they lack). ‘Totalitarian’ conjours an image of a more total control over the lives of the citizenry — ‘dictatorship’ is a more general term, so all “totalitarian” countries are also (in some sense) “dictatorships” even if not all dictatorships are totalitarian. Saddam Hussein was a dictator; but his country wasn’t totalitarian. Then there’s the idea of the single dictator — whereas a totalitarianship might be run by a small group, rather than one person. It’s not like apples, pears, and plums — where there are distinct THINGS. These are all categories of abstract concepts.
