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dictatorship Definition

dic·ta·tor·ship (dik′tāt′ər s̸hip′, dik′tāt′-)

noun

  1. the position or office of a dictator
  2. the time during which a dictator rules
  3. a state ruled by a dictator
  4. absolute power or authority
dictatorship Synonyms

dictatorship

n.

despotism, unlimited rule, totalitarianism, coercion; see autocracy, fascism, government 2, tyranny.

dictatorship Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • proletariat: Why did Marx proclaim the need for a dictatorship of the proletariat?
  • bourgeoisie: The Constituent Assembly is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
  • bureaucracy: But he says not a word about the dictatorship of the bureaucracy.
  • minority: By that they mean the dictatorship of a minority as represented by the shop stewards.
  • majority: The dictatorship of the majority is realized in the video era.

Converse of object

  • overthrow: The revolution, one of the great upheavals of the 20th century, opened with the struggle to overthrow the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.
  • elect: With no opposition or dissent to the new laws, Australia is simply turning into an elected dictatorship.
  • establish: Establish a dictatorship, protect a government which shoots demonstrators in the city?
  • impose: Our small country is more threatened today than ever by the superpower now seeking to impose a fascist dictatorship on a global scale.
  • oppose: A better way to oppose dictatorship is for people to make revolution against it and every other aspect of capitalism.
  • fight: After that I found that Civic Forum stands even more against me and against those who were fighting the communist dictatorship.

Adjective modifier

  • proletarian: The proletarian dictatorship may or may not free women.
  • totalitarian: What were the main features of totalitarian dictatorship in Nazi Germany?
  • fascist: The Portuguese fascist dictatorship was overthrown by the people, allied to sections of the army, in 1974.
  • brutal: Myanmar is ruled with an iron fist by a brutal military dictatorship, which has renamed the country Myanmar.
  • elective: We are barely in an elective dictatorship at the moment.
  • bureaucratic: The comrades have a well worn schema: first secure victory for Saddam Hussein's bureaucratic dictatorship.

Preposition: over

  • proletariat: Isn't it clear that the dictatorship of the proletariat is excluded by the dictatorship over the proletariat?

Noun used with modifier

  • Bolshevik: November - December Lenin begins to set up a Bolshevik dictatorship.
  • wing: An attempt by General Kornilov to establish a right wing dictatorship is a disastrous flop.
dictatorship Quotes

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

We have decapitated him from the dictatorship.

—Powell, Colin Luther

Democrats are fleeing in all directions. Reformers are going into hiding. A dictatorship is beginning, and no one knows what shape it will take or who will come to power.

—Shevardnadze, Eduard Ambrosievich

   Power isnot a means, it is an end.One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

—Kennan, George Frost

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

—Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)