A '''dictatorship''' is a [[political]] system of [[government]] in which a single person (the [[dictator]]) or [[collective]] committee ([[politburo]]) has absolute [[power]], because no legal process exists by which the leadership can be removed from office against their will.
Many ancient non-[[monarchial]] systems were effectively dictatorships, often under wartime conditions where a leader could fight an enemy with unchallenged power. The term is usually heard in it's its modern context, where [[democracy]] and checks on power (a Council of Elders, such as the [[Senate]], [[House of Lords]], or judicial processes) exist as an alternative to absolute power by an [[Executive]].
[[Extreme Leftism]], which opposes democracy and advocates [[single party control]], fosters dictatorship. A core principle of [[Marxism]] us is dictatorship, which [[Socialist]]s claim is a transitory stage; however no socialist victory was was ever won without the dictatorship becoming a permanent institutional feature and leading the [[nation state]] it possesses to [[democidal]] warfare and [[economic]] ruin.
==An historical context==
==Modern dictatorships==
*[[People's Republic of China]]*[[Iran]]*[[Pakistan]]*[[Turkey]]
*[[Venezuela]]
*[[Cuba]]
*[[Saudi Arabia]]
*[[Jordan]]
*[[North Korea]]
*[[Sudan]]
*[[Biden junta]]
==Historical dictatorships==
*[[Soviet Union]]
*[[Nazi Germany]]
*[[Cambodia]] under [[Pol Pot]]
*Communist [[Romania]]
*[[Portugal]]
*[[Spain]] under [[Francisco Franco]]
*[[Italy]] under [[Benito Mussolini]]
==Dictatorship in Fiction==
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