Discussion
When a political party or an ideology hegemonize every aspect of society - social, cultural, political, economic, it may appropriately be termed as .................... .
Answer: B
It may be termed Totalitarian.
A totalitarian regime seeks to control every aspect of life, social, cultural, political and economic, through a single party and an official ideology, mass mobilisation and propaganda; Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union are the classic cases studied by Hannah Arendt and others.
An authoritarian or despotic regime concentrates political power but may leave much of social and economic life alone, and a democratic order allows competing parties and ideologies, the opposite of one ideology dominating everything.
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