Hegel and later Arendt argue that totalitarian and despotic regimes are sustained primarily by ideology and manufactured consent, rendering subjects compliant through belief rather than terror.
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Manufactured consent(as a mechanism for maintaining power without obvious coercion)
The idea that powerful groups (like governments or media) can make ordinary people agree with them by controlling information and shaping what people believe, rather than forcing them through violence.
Subjects
# Subjects
A subject is a person or thing that is being discussed, studied, or acted upon. In everyday language, it's the main focus of attention—for example, the subject of a conversation or the subject of a photograph. In grammar, the subject is the part of a sentence that performs the action or is being described (like "cats" in "Cats love fish").
Totalitarian regimes(as the type of government being analyzed)
Governments that try to control almost every aspect of citizens' lives—what they think, say, and do—with the state having complete power over society.
ideology(Althusser's structural Marxism)
Historically generated conceptions — including those of human nature and the proper function of the state — that serve to reproduce existing social relations.