"The older word for the worst possible form of government is “tyranny”—a word Aristotle defined as the rule of one person, or of a small group of people, in their own interests and according to their will. Totalitarianism was unknown to Aristotle, because it is a form of government that only became possible after the emergence of modern science and technology."
See Orwell, Animal Farm, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 60.
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