• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    50 minutes ago

    I mean, dictatorship has a pretty clear definition that I learned from books and I’m not American.

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      21 minutes ago

      And is that definition one where absolute power is concentrated in a single individual or a small group of between 3 and 10.

      Post martial law, none of these countries were dictatorship by that definition. Not a single one of the people the West calls a dictator had absolute power outside of either the revolutionary war period or the crisis of WW2.