And Hannah Arendt, after the hungarian revolt of '56 said as much. Doesn't her book on totalitarianism have an appendix that reprints a piece of hers from Partisan Review or Commentary to that effect? She wasn't some premate version of Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
From Agnes Heller CV on her website. She was a student of Lukacs.A chapter of this book was published in Socialist review in issue #59, in 1985.
Eastern Left - Western Left (Freedom, Totalitarianism, Democracy) (with F. Feher). Cambridge, New York: Polity Press, Humanities Press, 1987. (Also Serbo-Croation trans.).
(Excellent analysis of Soviet type societies.)
Dictatorship Over Needs (with F. Feher and G. Markus). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. (Paperback, 1984. Also German, Italian, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Hungarian trans.).
Hungary, 1956 Revisited: The Message of a Revolution A Quarter of a Century After (with F. Feher). London, Boston, Sydney: George Allen and Unwin, 1983. (Also Italian, German, Spanish, and Hungarian trans.).
On Arendt and totalitarianism see the book by Stephen Whitfield,
"Into The Dark, " and Abbott Gleason' book from Oxford U. Press on the
history and debates around the concept
http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195050185.html
. FWIW, I don't apply the term to post Stalin USSR and think that it
had obvious weaknesses. Too metaphysical, too apologetic towards the
West.However, from reading Gleason and
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f99/jones.html and Andreas Wildt
(Andreas Wildt."Totalitarian State Capitalism: On the Structure and
HistoricalFunction of Soviet-type Societies. In: Telos 41, 1979, p.
33-57
...why it's Doug Kellner again, that notorious Fan of U.S. Imperialism
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/blogger.php
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/sept11kell.htm
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/pmtvwbfull.jpg >...Noam
Chomsky blurb...",
>From 1984 to One-Dimensional Man: Critical Reflections on Orwell ...
... see Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York:
Harcourt, Brace & Co.:
1951), and Andreas Wildt, "Totalitarian State Capitalism" Telos 41
(Fall ...
www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/Illumina%20Folder/kell13.htm ) I
know that the term and analysis originated on the European Left not in
the brain of Carl Friedrich and Zbig Brzezinski.
Michael Pugliese
