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A related interesting diagram would be to map axes of Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism. The two are often confused but are not the same.
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Many call present-day Russia authoritarian, and they have a point, but it is almost certainly not a totalitarian state.
Totalitarianism happens when an ideology invades aspects of public and private life. You are looking for examples of "distributed ideological invasion" that occurs without a central authority overseeing it.
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Dalrymple agued that Le Corbusier-style modernism was totalitarian. It was not "authoritarian" because Le Corb wasn't in a position of direct state authority -- the state was his customer. Since many architects shared Le Corb's views, modernism in architecture was "distributed."
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