Re: Totalitarianism: Pre-dates the Cold War Liberals, the category, label, that is. First usage, late 20's, by German leftists. See, "The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism, " William David Jones, Univ. of Illinois Press. Blurbed by Doug Kellner and Stephen Eric Bronner.
I thought it was Mussolini who first used the term?