TLDR:

**Key Points:**

* The worst individuals in a society are more likely to succeed in a totalitarian system due to their willingness to disregard ordinary morals and take ruthless actions.

* A totalitarian leader must collect a group of followers who are prepared to submit to discipline and impose it on others, often by appealing to a common human weakness or hatred for an enemy.

* The leader must be willing to do immoral things to advance within the party, and the principle of "the end justifies the means" becomes the supreme rule in collectivist ethics.

* In a totalitarian system, intolerance, suppression of dissent, and disregard for individual life and happiness are essential and unavoidable.

* The system relies on propaganda and control of information to make people accept the values they are to serve, often by using old words with changed meanings.

* Collectivism ultimately means the end of truth, as people are persuaded to accept the validity of values they were never truly committed to.