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This page refers to dictatorship in politics. For other uses, such as domestic dictatorship or burgeouse defenitions see Dictator (disambiguation) on Wikipedia
Dictatorship in politics is a form of dominance of people\group of people\political parties\classes over others via economic, politics, laws, and especially violence. Dictatorship is an inherent part of class society.
Often used in propaganda as an opposition to democracy, to describe a type of government in a country “b” where all or the majority of control over the country, its political and economical life, or even lives of people belongs to a single person, in a contrast with democratic government of country “a”. For example.
Although this description might be correct in some cases such primitivisation downwards a mere propaganda tool as well as painting it permamently negative hides the main definition of dictatorship in politics, specifically the factor of dominance of one over others, which may not let people to see the dictatorship behind the most democratic facade, the dictatorship of not just a single person, but one group of people over other group of people, one class over another.[1]
Historical background
With the formation of early class societies in early bronze age, and later when the effectiveness of human labour has increased to create surplus product big enough to feed more people that actually occupied in production of the necessities which separated people on two groups: exploiters and exploiters, came a need to create the state, a tool to direct the will of one group of people of the state owning the means of production onto the growing masses of people who do not, which meant the creation of the first dictatorships thousands of years before the first spoken concept of the democracy and modern conflicts between democracy and dictatorship in propaganda, which has created an illusion that the dictatorship is relatively new concept.
The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution. Chapter II. The Eve of Revolution[2]
The group which directs a dictatorship is considered a ruling class. In a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie is the ruling class, and their government forms a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
The dictatorship of proletariat
Using historical materialism and dialectics marxists discovered the class nature of dictatorship, and the fact that dictatorship of one class over another does exist despite the claims of politics regarding the freedom in their state. They called it the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and found the dialectical counterpart for it as a form of dictatorship of ones being oppressed by said dictatorship - workers\proletariat, who do not possess means of production big enough to exploit others, and they called it the dictatorship of the proletariat.
They claimed that the path to a real democracy for a majority of people does not stop with some human rights to vote and speak that has been given them with bourgeois revolutions across the world and following installation of liberal ideas as the leading ones. Ones that In reality only covered the new form of dictatorship that took place over the dictatorship of landlords. They saw it through the use of the same methods but in favor of masses: directing the will of the majority of society onto the current ruling class, and applying the dictatorship of masses against bourgeoisie to turn the dictatorship of bourgeoisie into the dictatorship of proletariat.[3][4]
“Wrong, we reply. This means replacing what in fact is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (a dictatorship hypocritically cloaked in the forms of the democratic bourgeois republic) by the dictatorship of the proletariat. This means replacing democracy for the rich by democracy for the poor. This means replacing freedom of assembly and the press for the minority, for the exploiters, by freedom of assembly and the press for the majority of the population, for the working people. This means a gigantic, world historic extension of democracy, its transformation from falsehood into truth, the liberation of humanity from the shackles of capital, which distorts and truncates any, even the most "democratic" and republican, bourgeois democracy. This means replacing the bourgeois state with the proletarian state, a replacement that is the sole way the state can eventually wither away altogether.” Vladimir Lenin “Democracy” and Dictatorship[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Hal Draper (1987). The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ in Marx and Engels: '1. Short Sketch of ‘Dictatorship’'. [MIA]
- ↑ Vladimir Lenin. The state and revolution: '2'. [MIA]
- ↑ “The state is a machine in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies. In this respect the dictatorship of the proletariat does not differ essentially from the dictatorship of any other class, for the proletarian state is a machine for the suppression of the bourgeoisie. But there is one substantial difference. This difference consists in the fact that all hitherto existing class states have been dictatorships of an exploiting minority over the exploited majority, whereas the dictatorship of the proletariat is the dictatorship of the exploited majority over the exploiting minority.”
Joseph Stalin (1924). The Foundations of Leninism: 'IV THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT; 2) The dictatorship of the proletariat as the rule of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie.'. [MIA] - ↑ Joseph Stalin (1924). The Foundations of Leninism: 'IV THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT; 1) The dictatorship of the proletariat as the instrument of the proletarian revolution'.
- ↑ Vladimir Lenin. “Democracy” and Dictatorship. [MIA]