Towards A Critique Of The Category Of Totalitarianism by Domenico Losurdo
This book contests the broad use of the category “totalitarianism” as an ideological instrument that flattens important differences between Nazism and Soviet-style regimes and thereby serves Cold War and post‑Cold War political agendas; it traces the concept’s intellectual genealogy, exposes how it has been used to delegitimize socialism while minimizing Western crimes (colonialism, slavery, imperialism), and argues for a comparative-historical analysis that distinguishes distinct social foundations, political logics, and forms of mass violence—recognizing state repression where it occurred but insisting that meaningful critique must situate regimes in their class, racial, and international contexts rather than collapsing them into a single, politicized label.
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