Before denouncing totalitarianism in general, have we made sure that it does not reside within ourselves? To find out, we must pay attention to certain processes that take place within groups as well as within individuals. Here is a first glimpse.

Following our report on "The Dictatorship on the Move!", in the latest issue of "Elements", we interviewed Ariane Bilheran at length, who has just published a very rich Psychopathologie du totalitarisme published by Guy Trédaniel. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, philosopher, clinical psychologist, doctor in psychopathology, and collaborator of "Antipresse" by our friend and collaborator Slobodan Despot, no one was better placed than Ariane Bilheran to analyze the

On March 1, 2022, the Italian writer Paolo Nori denounced the cancellation by the University of Milan-Bicocca of his course dedicated to the Russian writer Dostoevsky[3]. A curious coincidence, because if there is one literature that denounces the totalitarian temptation, it is that of Dostoevsky, as Koestler understood very well, and who even alluded to it in Darkness at Noon: "The question is whether the student Raskolnikov had the right to kill the old pawnbroker. He is yo

Arthur Koestler is an important witness and analyst of the totalitarian phenomenon of the twentieth century. After A Spanish Testament and Darkness at Noon, The Scum of the Earth, a manuscript written between January and March 1941, from London, recounts the French period of 1939-1940, the arbitrary round-ups, the persecutions and camps, and the flight from France.

"We have pushed logic so far in the liberation of human beings from the shackles of industrial exploitation that we have sent about ten million people to forced labor in the Arctic regions and the eastern forests, in conditions analogous to those of the galley slaves of antiquity. We have pushed logic so far that to settle a difference of opinion, we know only one argument: death."