POLI 359 Lecture Notes - Totalitarianism, Monism, Statism

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 359
• Professor: Mark Baron

Document Summary

Only way to control society is to actively survey and intervene through the police. Law is subordinate to the state, no autonomous legal institutions party penetrates all of them. The police aren"t constrained by law, used by party to further revolutionary agenda, only accountable to party leader. They are extensive, exercise power over and against society as a whole. Mass mobilization: if you want to revolutionize. Actively encourage active citizen participation, not autonomous independent participation. The participation has to be what the party wants it to be make sure it doesn"t pose a threat to the party. Mass mobilization regimes, active participation but not autonomous. Statist: state has a role to play in governing the economy for the purpose of achieving the national interests of the state, instrumentalize them to bring about change. Left-wing totalitarian: stalinist ussr, private ownership is non existent. State owned property (public) state effort to nationalize the economy.