To understand the advantages and disadvantages of totalitarianism, one must first understand what totalitarianism is. Totalitarianism is complete rule where individuals do not have freedoms, and laws and policies are determined by one or a group of individuals who are in charge.
Some advantages of this system do exist. Firstly, changes to government can be in acted quickly and swiftly. This is because the person or group in power can make any change the deem necessary instantaneously. Secondly, the process of making laws is very easy. Again, the ruler or ruling group simply decides what is law, and it becomes so without political debate or democratic vote. Thirdly, because a small group is in power, their is also less room for corruption in the government. With only one central ruler, or group of rulers, it is much more difficult for corruption to occur.
Despite these advantages, a number of disadvantages exist as well. One disadvantage is that only one person or group is in power. This means that that person or group's ideas on law and government must be accepted without question. This also leads to another disadvantage, people not having political freedoms. Lack of political freedoms abolishes the say of the people. This means that if the ruler does not have the best interest of the people in mind they have no ability in enacting changes in how they are governed and policed. A third, and possibly the largest disadvantage, is that no individual freedoms exist. Because the people in a totalitarian government are under complete control of their ruler, they may lose any freedoms, such as the freedom of speech, that they may have had previously.
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