Dictatorship
A dictatorship may refer to:
- A class dictatorship, embodied in the state. The state is the unrestricted rule of one class which is dictatorial (restricting of liberties, suppressive) to one class yet democratic to the ruling class. Instances include the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and dictatorship of the proletariat.[1]
- An autocracy, the political rule of a single individual over a government.
References
- ↑ Vladimir Lenin (1917). The State and Revolution.
"[...] this period [the transition from capitalism to communism] inevitably is a period of an unprecedently violent class struggle in unprecedentedly acute forms, and, consequently, during this period the state must inevitably be a state that is democratic in a new way (for the proletariat and the propertyless in general) and dictatorial in a new way (against the bourgeoisie)."