Totalitarianism is a political system that seeks "total domination". Hannah Arendt's assertion must be taken literally: it is not a question of relative domination over all public and private spheres of a society's lives, but of total domination. What does this mean?

All totalitarian islets create their own "newspeak", for example within companies that operate by terrorizing, harassing and persecuting their employees. All totalitarianism lives off the conquest of "ideological pretension" (Hannah Arendt) and the "rectification of thought" (Mao). To overcome these ideological levels, which are increasingly moving away from the search for truth and knowledge, and to persecute opponents, the instrumentalization of language is necessary.