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dictatorship- A government led by a dictator or a despot. Dictatorships are more often than not totalitarian regimes, but there is also a benevolent dictatorship, which is by consent of the people.
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DICTATORSHIP?
I am doing an essay on the
negative effects of
dictatorship. I also have to
tie in "social, emotional, and
socioeconomical" somewhere in
there. HELP.
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In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state. That would usually set absolute power in the hands of one person. If that person was incorruptible, as Jesus Christ was, then all would flow well. That person would improve the socioeconomic standards of the country raising social and emotional well being. However, power is a strong corrupter of mankind. We only have to see what happened in Russia, Cuba, China, Valenzuela, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia. Closer to home. Las Vegas began as a dictatorship of the Mafia and lost big time. Instead they reorganized, send their children to college to learn law, business, economics and marketing. Today the Mafia still controls Las Vegas but with different rules. Rules that allow the government to tolerate their being (by paying income taxes) even though there is still lots of money laundering and scheming. |
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Are ethnic countries more I don't know...I was just
observing communistic
countries (present day and
history) that are ran by
dictatorship and noticed that
communism and dictatorship is
easier to obtain when
minorities are rare. Are the
people easier to control in
countries like that?
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You suggestion is false. The largest communist countries - the Soviet Union and China - had/have many different minorities within their borders. Just look at all the different countries the Soviet Union broke into. |
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Do you support the collapse of The world is seeing the
brutality of the CHinese
dictatorship. Chinese
dissidents and pro democracy
activists are being jailed and
China is cracking down in
Tibet. Are these the signs of
the last days of this
disgusting dictatorship? Do
you support the collapse of
the Chinese government and how
do you think Olympic protests
can help?
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It is only a matter of time. The idea that Chinese are not ready for democracy, as some have suggested, is ludicrous. They are more than ready, in fact they are demanding democracy. More than 20,000 protests take place every year in China, mostly in rural areas. They are repressed violently and the protestors are beaten, jailed, and often killed by the security forces. These protests are about human rights, against corruption, land grabs, environmental pollution, injustice, etc. Dozens of reports confirm these (one article below as reference, many others can easily be found). The angry boycott Carrefour is very eloquent and is a perfect sign of the profound malaise in Chinese society. These protests are one of the few CCP-sanctioned protest. It is a safety valve, and those angry mobs are only allowed to protest because the CCP knows it is a good outlet for their anger. I understand how one could be upset about the West and how the wheel-chaired Chinese athlete was presumably attacked, but I wish those angry young text-messaging Chinese urbanites would be a little more outraged about the hundreds or thousands of their own people beaten, jailed and killed each year simply because they protest for very legitimate reasons. But maybe they don't care afterall, these peasants are poor and uneducated... Edit: @Basile, by the way, I don't have a cozy home, and I don't have a cozy job too. Don't assume things you don't know anything about just because it looks nice in your answer to denigrate people you don't know based on nothing at all. |
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