Claim: George Orwell is an advocate of social ownership.

Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible . A distinctive feature of totalitarian governments is an `` elaborate ideology , a set of ideas that gives meaning and direction to the whole society '' .   The concept was first developed in the 1920s by the Weimar German jurist , and later Nazi academic , Carl Schmitt , and Italian fascists . Schmitt used the term , Totalstaat , in his influential work on the legal basis of an all-powerful state , The Concept of the Political -LRB- 1927 -RRB- . The concept became prominent in Western political discourse as a concept that highlights similarities between Fascist states and the Soviet Union .