- The document discusses the political theory of totalitarianism as conceived by a German-American theorist in response to the early Nazi regime. - It contrasts totalitarianism, which seeks complete control of public and private life and world domination, with other forms of autocratic rule with political but not social control. - It examines the key aspects of totalitarian societies and arts in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, including the cult of the leader, national myths, and state-controlled media like film, music and art.

1. TWO WORLDS,
TWO PLANS
THE NOTION OF “TOTALITARIANISM”
AND TOTALITARIAN ART

2. What is this,
and How do we get here?:

3. - INFLUENTIAL GERMAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL
THEORIST, LIVED THROUGH EARLY NAZI REGIME,
FLED TO FRANCE, THEN TO AMERICA
- Colonial vs. Continental expansionism:
two contexts of racism and imperialism
- PAN-SLAVISM AND PAN-GERMANISM
- SUBORDINATION OF ALL INTERESTS
TO THE WILL OF THE STATE
- TOTALITARIANISM VS AUTOCRACY:
COMPLETE CONTROL OF EVERYDAY LIFE
DESIRE FOR WORLD DOMINATION
VS.
POLITICAL CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION
I.E. ITALY ???
„DIE ELEMENTE UND URSPRÜNGE
TOTALER HERRSCHAFT“

4. Political
Message
Subordinate to
Artistic
Conveyance
“Mainly Art
not Politics”
Obfuscation,
Superficiality

5. TWO SOCIETIES,
TWO THEORIES
Rejuvination and
National Socialism

6. TWO SOCIETIES,
TWO THEORIES

7. GAINING CONTROL

8. CONSTRUCTION
AND RECONSTRUCTION
Infrastructure Expansion,
National Defense

9. INDUSTRIALIZATION
REARMAMENT, AND DUAL-USE

10. FOREIGN OUTLOOK

11. “CLASS” AND
“CLASSLESSNESS”
Corporatism – Corporate subordination
and/or marriage to concerns of state
Private
property
retained,
unless it is
challenge to
State authority
“Petit-
Bourgeois”
Or
“Kleinburger”

12. THE LEADER

13. THE LEADER

14. THE LEADER

15. THE GOAL

16. THE GOAL

17. THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MAN

18. THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MAN

19. WOMAN AND FAMILY
IN NAZI GERMANY

20. THE SOVIET MAN

21. THE SOVIET MAN

22. THE SOVIET WOMAN

23. THE SOVIET WOMAN

24. THE FASCIST MENACE

25. THE FASCIST MENACE

26. THE BOLSHEVIK THREAT

27. THE BOLSHEVIK THREAT

28. THE UNIFORM

29. “HIGH ART”

30. “HIGH ART”

31. “HIGH ART”

32. “HIGH ART”

33. “HIGH ART”

34. “HIGH ART”

35. “HIGH ART”

36. HISTORICAL INSPIRATION

37. THE GLORIOUS PAST

38. TOTALITARIAN FILM

39. TOTALITARIAN FILM

40. THE MUSIC
Nazi German
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zfHpiS4Ug
(les Preludes – deutsche wochenschau)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy0fhvTLNlY&f
eature=related
(when the soldiers march)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip4FtVxrkFg
(pariser einzugsmarsch – paris 1940)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bd14eUhrU&f
eature=related
(beethoven’s 9th on hitler’s birthday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUsePoATbrU&
feature=related
(lili marlene – ww2 version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q
Yim85Z5Njk
(if war comes tomorrow)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y
y8mxh0P63M&feature=related
(the sacred war)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y
68NhY6b4hk
(blue handkerchief)

41. Right Wing rhetoric - the obama poster
increases In state power
broadest “socialism”:
welfare in general, language of class struggle,
any state imposition on market, etc.
may re-create this phenomenon
Left wing rhetoric – the end of history?
specter of “inverted totalitarianism”:
politics, arts, life dominated by
the market and corporation
a “Lazy” notion: too broad, non-specific,
ignores important differences
TOTALITARIANISM: MODERN INTERPRETATIONS