Editing Totalizing Ideologies (section)

== Definition ==

A ''totalizing ideology'' is one that:
* Claims '''universal applicability''' across moral, political, epistemic, and social domains.
* Tends toward '''monopolistic authority''', suppressing rival frameworks through coercion, moral absolutism, or epistemic closure.
* '''Rejects pluralism''', aiming instead to dominate or eliminate alternative perspectives.
* Appeals to a '''comprehensive and often self-reinforcing worldview''' that resists external critique.

Examples cited by Weinstein include extremist forms of political Islamism, North Korean Juche, and rigid activist orthodoxy when expressed as closed, totalizing systems.