Sigmund Neumann
Sigmund Neumann , born in 1904, died in 1962, is a American Politologue of German origin, professor with the Université wesleyenne (Connecticut).
In 1940, in its Permanent work Revolution , Sigmund Neumann develop the concept of Totalitarisme, in order to define the common characters of the modes Dictatoriaux of the Entre-deux-guerres. It thus anticipates the analyzes, more known, of Hannah Arendt and Carl J. Friedrich on the question.
According to Sigmund Neumann, the first goal of the totalitarian modes (the Italian Fascism, the German Nazism and the Soviet Stalinism) is to perpetuate and institutionalize the Révolution. The totalitarian State cannot be reformed; taken in its aggressive and destroying dynamics, it cannot that to be destroyed.
Publications
- Permanent Revolution. Old Totalitarianism in the off International Civilian War , Future London, 1940.
- In Prospect , G.P. Putnam' S Sounds, 1946,406 p.
- Germany: Promised and Danger , 1950.
- (ED.), Political Modem Left. Comparative Approaches to politics , Chicago, University off Chicago Close, 1956,460 p.
- Die Parteien der Weimarer Republik , Kohlhammer, 1965.