Nov 15, 2022
You either misread Arendt or have an idiosyncratic definition of "novel." What she said in multiple books was, as I said, that totalitarianism is a common push of power interests to take control of society through violence and intimidation. It is not novel but ingrained in a certain personality type that needs to express its impotence. https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/hannah-arendt-on-acts-of-violence-as-impotence-a3fedfaca236