What is dictatorship?

What Does dictatorship Mean

A dictatorship is a government that dispenses with the legal system and current legislation to exercise, without any opposition, the authority of a country . The term is extended to the country with this form of government and while this type of mandate lasts.

The dictatorship usually concentrates its power around the figure of a single individual, who receives the name of the dictator . Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini are two examples of dictators.

When accessing power , either through a democratic means or through a coup d'état , the dictator usually forms a de facto government where there is no division of powers and the opposition is prevented from reaching the government through institutional means (elections are suspended and political parties are prohibited, for example).
The notion of dictatorship dates back to Roman times, when supreme authority could be granted to one person (the dictator) in times of crisis, generally linked to wars.
Over time, dictatorships became predominantly military dictatorships , where the dictator is supported by the military force that is responsible for the repression of dissidents and imposing terror to avoid dissent. One can also speak of constitutional dictatorships when, under the apparent respect of the Constitution , a dictator violates the legislation to exercise power.
Finally, beyond the political and social organization, any dominant force that exerts a predominance is known as dictatorship . For example: "The dictatorship of aesthetics is imposed on the lives of adolescents . "
Dictatorship, a type of totalitarianism
An ideology in which there is no individuality of the beings that make up society is known as totalitarianism ; that is, it suppresses free will and people exist as long as they are part of society and collaborate for the normal performance of its life.
In each totalitarianism the hegemonic ideas vary according to the ideology that sustains it, which are always extremist. With regard to dictatorships, they are also guided and focused from an ideology. The dictatorship of the proletariat , for example, was based on Marxist ideas and was a creed that persecuted those who clung to other political ideas but was tolerant of the proletariat and the peasantry. Its difference with the rest of the dictatorships existing until now, was that in this case the hegemony was in accordance with the ideas of the most disadvantaged classes, while the previous ones represented the ideas of the upper class or the nobility .

With regard to fascist- oriented dictatorships , the interests that sustain it are those that define an ethnic group or culture. People who are part of society do not exist as individual beings unless they feel identified by the cause and act around the "will" of the ethnic group .
Unlike other dictatorships, fascist doctrinal thought recognizes itself as the only valid one and assumes its role as a totalitarian idealist, imposing itself on the prevailing cultural diversity. And it does so by imposing an authoritarian figure to which the villagers must worship and subordinate themselves.
It is worth mentioning that one of the resources used by dictatorships to impose themselves is violence and abuse of authority . The citizens end up obeying and considering the leader as someone ideal for fear of being humiliated or even killed; in this way the hegemony of radical ideas is maintained, through fear and extortion .
One of the objectives of every society is to prevent these situations from reoccurring in them because the arrival of a dictatorship to power not only leads to the suppression of individual freedoms but also leads to thousands of deaths and disappearances.

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