1. American Fascists
   The Christian Right and the War on America
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
2. Animal Farm
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1945
   George Orwell's satire on the decline of the Russian Revolution and its transformation into Stalinism.
3. Apathy and Our Totalitarian Future
   Watching Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   The implication of the NSA scandal is this: encroaching totalitarianism can move slowly, in stages.
4. Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1945
   Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
   
5. Eichmann in Jerusalem
   A report on the banality of evil
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1965
   Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
6. Escape from Freedom
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1965
   
7. The Essential Stalin
   Major Theoretical Writings 1905-1952
   Resource Type: Book
   
8. Essential Works of Lenin
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. George Orwell: A Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   A biography of George Orwell.
10. Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality
    Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies.
11. Heidegger: L'introduction du nazisme dans la philosophie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Faye argues that all of Heidegger's thinking was permeated by National Socialism.
12. Heidegger And Nazism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Posits Martin Heidegger's as an influential Nazi philosopher, a manipulative thinker of great intelligence whose touchstones were anti-humanism and contempt for democracy.
13. The Life of Bertrand Russell
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
14. A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of those who opposed fascism.
15. A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
16. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
17. Memory hole
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened. The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the Party's Ministry of Truth systematically re-created all potential historical documents, in effect, re-writing all of history to match the often-changing state propaganda.
18. The National Security State Cops a Feel
    Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
19. The Nazi Seizure of Power
    The Experience of a Single German Town
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
20. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
21. NSA's Path to Totalitarianism
    Ever-Shrinking Democracy in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The American National Security Agency (NSA) appears as a “rogue” organization, extremism in the putative service of liberty. Or better, call it, stripped of all cosmetics, the unerring mark of a Police State, itself become identical with Fortress America, the National-Security State.
22. The Origins of Totalitarianism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    
23. Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
24. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
25. Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
    by Vaughn Rasberry.
26. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
27. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
28. Responsibility and Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    
29. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
30. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1995
    
31. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
32. WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.

Experts on Totalitarianism in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive