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ra-de-su · W240

radesu · tyranny; deviant-power-structure · ✅

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Domain Politics / Governance
Class entity / structure
Type compound
Register formal
First use ANT-001-A (S845): la-a-ra-su ne e-su / no ne ra-de-su — "Totalitarianism is a new form — not tyranny." (Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism)

Composition

ra (power/force) + de (deviation/decay/harm) + su (structure/organization). Head-final: su (structure) is head; ra-de (deviant power) specifies the character of the structure.

Definition

ra (power/force) + de (deviation/decay) + su (structure/organization) = deviant-power-structure = tyranny. The political structure whose power deviates from legitimate exercise — arbitrary, unchecked, self-serving — but which does not penetrate the private sphere. Arendt: tyranny is historically prior to and categorically distinct from totalitarianism (a-ra-su W239). Tyranny leaves private life intact; totalitarianism destroys it. Right-branching: ra + [de-su] = power-of-[deviant-structure]. The -su tail parallels a-ra-su: both name political structure types, making the taxonomic contrast explicit.

ra (primitive: power/force), de (primitive: decay/deviation), su (primitive: structure), a-ra-su (W239: totalitarianism — historically novel, distinct), wi-ra (W177: directed institutional power)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S# Tonesu
S845 la-a-ra-su ne e-su / no ne ra-de-su
"Totalitarianism is a new [emergent] form of rule — not tyranny."
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