Editing Dictatorship

{{Quote|The masses are nothing to me, but a flock of sheep as long as they aren't organized. I'm not against it, I just deny that it can govern itself.|[[Benito Mussolini]]}}

A '''dictatorship''' is a form of government that centers power in a single organ, party or in the hands of just one person that gets called "dictator".

== Types ==

=== [[Authoritarianism]] ===

==== Summary ====
Authoritarianism is when a state in which sovereignty is exercised by a hegemonic party or a dictator.

==== Features ====

* It abolishes the rule of law of the principles of legality, thus it violates the freedoms of the human being and acts as a force above the law.
* It limitates the fundamental individual rights: personal freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
* It represses any form of dissent with the prohibition of setting up private associations or organizations, other than those expressly authorized, and the creation of a single party.
* It suppress the trade union freedom.
* It replaces the elected bodies, with bodies nominated by the government.
* It creates a rigid hierarchical system.

[[File:Totalitarists.png|thumb|374x374px|The three major exponents of a totalitarian dictatorship: [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]].]]

=== [[Totalitarianism]] ===

==== Summary ====
Totalitarianism is a type of dictatorship similar to authoritarianism, but it also expands its control in the life of the single individual.

==== Features ====

* It concentrates power on an immovable and politically irresponsible oligarchy.
* It imposes an official ideology, such as [[fascism]] or communism.
* It has a single mass party in power.
* It controls the forces operating in the state and uses terror.
* It has complete control of communication and information.
* It uses [[propaganda]] to plagiarize the mind of the people into thinking their ideology.

[[File:Militaristi.png|thumb|375x375px|The three major exponents of a military dictatorship: [[Muammar Gaddafi|Muʿammar Gheddafi]], [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Gamal Abd el-Nasser]], and [[Idi Amin Dada]].]]

=== [[Military dictatorship]] ===

==== Summary ====
A military dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government in which political power is held by the military.

==== Features ====

* It is guided by collegiate body.
* The head of state can be a senior officer or supreme commander of the armed forces.
* The dictator pushes a [[cult of personality]] to become the emblem of the nation.
* It starts after coup d'etat.
* Very often it has the characteristics of an autocracy.
* It often abandons power only under the pressure of an already ongoing or imminent popular uprising.
* It justifies itself with excuse of protecting the country from dangerous ideologies.
* It applies martial laws.
* It strives to portray civilian politicians as "corrupt" and "incompetent".
[[File:Teocrati.png|thumb|375x375px|Three major exponents of theocracy: [[Pope Innocent III]], [[taliban]] leader [[Abdul Ghani Baradar]] and [[Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud|Salmān bin Abdulazīz al Saūd]].]]

=== Theocracy ===

==== Summary ====
Theocracy is the form of government in which the management of religious and secular governmental activities coincide.

==== Features ====

* It has one religion of State.
* Every product that goes against the faith will be banished/censored and its creator will be persecuted.
* Every minority that gets discriminated by the holy book of the official religion will be persecuted.
* It is ruled by two shared heads of State: one is a secular ruler and the other is a religious leader.
* The clergy has direct or undirect control over the government.

== Examples ==

=== People ===
* [[Abdul Ghani Baradar]]
* [[Adolf Hitler]]
* [[Alexander Lukashenko]]
* [[Alfredo Stroessner]]
* [[Ali Khamenei]]
* [[Augusto Pinochet]]
* [[Bashar al-Assad]]
* [[Bazilio Olara-Okello]]
* [[Benito Mussolini]]
* [[Bolesław Bierut]]
* [[Charles Taylor]]
* [[Chiang Kai-shek]]
* [[Daniel Ortega]]
* [[Deng Xiaoping]]
* [[Denis Sassou Nguesso]]
* [[Emomali Rahmon]]
* [[Enver Hoxha]]
* [[Erich Honecker]]
* [[Ferdinand Marcos]]
* [[Fidel Castro]]
* [[Francisco Franco]]
* [[Frank Bainimarama]]
* [[François Duvalier]]
* [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Gamal Abd el-Nasser]]
* [[Gerardo Machado]]
* [[Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej]]
* [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]]
* [[Gregorio Álvarez]]
* [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]]
* [[Hafez al-Assad]]
* [[Hastings Banda]]
* [[Hissène Habré]]
* [[Ho Chi Minh]]
* [[Hugo Chávez]]
* [[Ibrahim Babangida]]
* [[Idi Amin Dada]]
* [[Ion Antonescu]]
* [[Isaias Afewerki]]
* [[Islam Karimov]]
* [[Ivan the Terrible]]
* [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]]
* [[Jorge Rafael Videla]]
* [[Joseph Stalin]]
* [[Josip Broz Tito]]
* [[Józef Piłsudski]]
* [[Juan María Bordaberry]]
* [[Juan Perón]]
* [[Kim Il-sung]]
* [[Kim Jong-il]]
* [[Kim Jong-un]]
* [[Konstantin Chernenko]]
* [[Kwame Nkrumah]]
* [[Lee Kuan Yew]]
* [[Leonid Brezhnev]]
* [[Leonid Kuchma]]
* [[Louis XIV of France]]
* [[Luis García Meza]]
* [[Manuel Noriega]]
* [[Mao Zedong]]
* [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]]
* [[Mary I of England]]
* [[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]]
* [[Maximilien Robespierre]]
* [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]]
* [[Michel Micombero]]
* [[Miguel Primo de Rivera]]
* [[Mobutu Sese Seko]]
* [[Muammar Gaddafi|Muʿammar Gheddafi]]
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]
* [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]
* [[Nicolás Maduro]]
* [[Nikita Khrushchev]]
* [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]
* [[Omar al-Bashir]]
* [[Pol Pot]]
* [[Pope Innocent III]]
* [[Rafael Trujillo]]
* [[Ranavalona III]]
* [[Raoul Cédras]]
* [[Robert Mugabe]]
* [[Ruhollah Khomeini]]
* [[Saddam Hussein]]
* [[Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud|Salmān bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd]]
* [[Samuel Doe]]
* [[Sani Abacha]]
* [[Siad Barre]]
* [[Slobodan Milošević]]
* [[Suharto]]
* [[Sukarno]]
* [[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]]
* [[Tito Okello]]
* [[Viktor Orbán]]
* [[Vlad Tepes the Impaler]]
* [[Vladimir Lenin]]
* [[Vladimir Putin]]
* [[Xi Jinping]]
* [[Yakubu Gowon]]
* [[Yuri Andropov]]

=== Groups ===
* [[Ba'ath Party]]
* [[Communist Party of China]]
* [[Communist Party of Cuba]]
* [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]]
* [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] / [[Khmer Rouge]]
* [[Communist Party of Vietnam]]
* [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
* [[Congolese Party of Labour]]
* [[Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea]]
* [[Derg]]
* [[Falange de las J.O.N.S]]
* [[Fidesz]]
* [[Hellenic State]]
* [[Imperial Japan]]
* [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]]
* [[Kuomintang]]
* [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]]
* [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]]
* [[MRND]]
* [[National Fascist Party]]
* [[National Legionary State]]
* [[National Party (South Africa)]]
* [[National Renewal Alliance]]
* [[National Reorganization Process]]
* [[Nazi Party]]
* [[Parmehutu]]
* [[People's Redemption Council]]
* [[Polish United Workers' Party]]
* [[Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador]]
* [[Sandinista National Liberation Front]]
* [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]]
* [[Supreme Council of Government]]
* [[Taliban]]
* [[Ustase]]
* [[Workers' Party of Korea]]
* [[ZANU-PF]]
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