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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".
{{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 ==
== Types ==


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


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


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


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


[[File:Militaristi.png|thumb|375x375px|The three major exponents of military dictatorship: [[Muammar Gaddafi|Muʿammar Gheddafi]], Gamal Abd el-Nasser,[[Idi Amin Dada]].]]
[[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 ===
=== [[Military dictatorship]] ===
 
==== Summary ====
A military dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government in which political power is held by the military.
A military dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government in which political power is held by the military.


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* It applies martial laws.
* It applies martial laws.
* It strives to portray civilian politicians as "corrupt" and "incompetent".
* 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]].]]


[[Category:Modern Villains]]
=== 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.
* The religions outside of the official religion are banned.
 
== 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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[[Category:Hegemony]]
[[Category:Government support]]
[[Category:Government support]]
[[Category:Lawful Evil]]
[[Category:Lawful Evil]]
[[Category:God Wannabe]]
[[Category:Totalitarians]]
[[Category:Power Hungry]]
[[Category:Fanatics]]
[[Category:Jingoists]]
[[Category:Jingoists]]
[[Category:Barbarians]]
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[[Category:Tyrants]]
[[Category:Tyrants]]
[[Category:Oppressors]]
[[Category:Oppressors]]
[[Category:Control Freaks]]
[[Category:Control Freaks]]
[[Category:Propagandist]]
[[Category:Propagandist]]
[[Category:Brainwasher]]
[[Category:Mongers]]
[[Category:Mongers]]
[[Category:Warlords]]
[[Category:Warlords]]
[[Category:Usurper]]
[[Category:Barbarians]]
[[Category:God Wannabe]]
[[Category:Power Hungry]]

Latest revision as of 20:17, 5 December 2023

“ 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 edit

Authoritarianism edit

Summary edit

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

Features edit

  • 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
The three major exponents of a totalitarian dictatorship: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Stalin.

Totalitarianism edit

Summary edit

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

Features edit

  • 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
The three major exponents of a military dictatorship: Muʿammar Gheddafi, Gamal Abd el-Nasser, and Idi Amin Dada.

Military dictatorship edit

Summary edit

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

Features edit

  • 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
Three major exponents of theocracy: Pope Innocent III, taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar and Salmān bin Abdulazīz al Saūd.

Theocracy edit

Summary edit

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

Features edit

  • 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.
  • The religions outside of the official religion are banned.

Examples edit

People edit

Groups edit

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