When asked what kind of state he wanted Italy to be, he described his ideal state as a place where subordinates are “All within the state , no one outside the state, no one against the state. ” (“Totalitarianism.”) This type of government structure and the goals of this new state were to provide “total representation of the nation and total guidance of national objectives.” (Stanley) While dictatorships and tyranny are often associated in the same scope of totalitarianism, the totalitarian system separates itself by replacing all other political institutions with new ones. Not to mention that totalitarianism eliminates all legal, social and political traditions and replaces them with everything that the state finds friendly and with it. which is in line with what the government wants its people to think, speak and believe. The only fundamental characteristic of a totalitarian state is that the state seeks to control how the population thinks. (Staudenmaier,) Totalitarianism it is characterized by a strong, centralized, omnipotent and oppressive governing body that “controls and directs all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression”. ("Totalitarianism.") Totalitarianism is closely associated with other political doctrines that uphold the principle of absolute rule, such as absolutism, authoritarianism, autocracy, despotism,