6. Totalitarianism - The strong belief in and practice of violent unchallengeable government intervention into, regulation of, micromanagement of and the eventual assimilation into a state collective of every aspect of human life usually to a common plan or vision of the way one thinks the world should operate.
7. Unconditional Obedience and Service to the State - The individual in a totalitarian country is viewed by their government, their fellow citizens and even themselves as a mere worker ant or an appendage of a larger group-being, whose sole purpose in life is to faithfully and unconditionally sacrifice all they have for the greater good of the collective as embodied by the state.
8. State Monopoly on Media Outlets - In order to control the flow of information and shape public opinion. The government has ownership/control of all media outlets such as books, magazines, newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc., while censoring any independent media outlets that would challenge official state propaganda.
9. Genuine Popular Support from the Masses - The ruling regime often receives real approval from either a majority or substantial minority of the oppressed population. This, combined with neutrality from the rest of the population, isolates those who would engage in passive or active resistance against the regime.
10. The Infallible Leader - The ruling regime is usually headed by an iron-fisted tyrant who is always right and never wrong on just about everything under the sun.
11. One Party Dictatorship - In a communist country the local, state and national levels of government are controlled by a single political party who have a monopoly on power over every part of government from the executive, legislative, judicial branches to the police, military and the bureaucracy.
12. Sham Elections and Rubber-Stamp Legislatures - Elections in communist countries if and when they are held are only one-choice elections. Also any meetings of the legislative branches are only for show and to approve the policies of the ruling elite.
The remaining characteristic of communism will follow soon.
