To sum up, totalitarian polities, like democratic ones, may be both civilian controlled and popular, but in totalitarian Communist systems there is an official ideology. The ideology is totalitarian in that the totality of social life is considered a legitimate matter for political control. In a totalitarian regime not only power is concentrated in the hands of an individual or groups, regime not only the regime eliminates all opposition parties, controls communication mass media, exercises control over the economy, makes deliberate use of terror through the secret police, and completely amoral use of force. The existence of a single official ideology and a single party accounts for concentration of political and economic power in the same group.