Not in the sense that the secret police will check your underwear drawer for forbidden literature, but in the sense that they require conforming in more encompassing and more personal ways than the usual institutions of the society (like a workplace or a college, etc.)
Note that things which are basically shared living arrangements on a smaller or larger scale are sometimes called communes even though they don’t requite active integration into the life of that mini-society—I don’t have those in mind.
And, of course, this totalitarianism is not a binary variable but an axis with, essentially, a solitary isolated individual at one end and a hive mind on another.
Cite? The kinds of communes my friends and acquaintances have lived in, haven’t seemed totalitarian at all.
Not in the sense that the secret police will check your underwear drawer for forbidden literature, but in the sense that they require conforming in more encompassing and more personal ways than the usual institutions of the society (like a workplace or a college, etc.)
Note that things which are basically shared living arrangements on a smaller or larger scale are sometimes called communes even though they don’t requite active integration into the life of that mini-society—I don’t have those in mind.
And, of course, this totalitarianism is not a binary variable but an axis with, essentially, a solitary isolated individual at one end and a hive mind on another.