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Military DictatorshipDictatorship, Democracy, Fascism, Communist State, Stratocracy, Totalitarianism In a military dictatorship political power resides with the military. Similar to a stratocracy, in a military dictatorship a state is ruled directly by the military. Military dictatorships are a result of a coup d'état. Military dictatorship may be official or unofficial and may not qualify as stratocratic. Military dictatorships is contrasted with Communist State. In Communist states, the center of power rests among civilian party officials. In a Communist state, civilian party officials head the government. Dictatorship is government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed. Dictatorship is a contrast to democracy. In a stratocracy the state and the military are the same and government positions are occupied by military leaders. Stratocracy is government headed by military chiefs. Stratocracy is not a military dictatorship where the military's political power is not enforced or even supported by other laws.
The military's political power is supported by law and the society. Stratocracy does not have to be autocratic by nature in order to preserve its right to rule. Dictatorship is government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed. Dictatorship is a contrast to democracy. In military dictatorship political power resides with the military. Similar to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military. Military dictatorships are a result of a coup d'état. Military dictatorship may be official or unofficial and may not qualify as stratocratic. Military dictatorships is contrasted with Communist State. In Communist states, the center of power rests among civilian party officials. Fascism Fascism is political doctrine opposed to democracy and demanding submission to political leadership and authority. A key principle of fascism is the belief that the whole society has a shared destiny and purpose which can only be achieved by iron discipline, obedience to leadership and an all-powerful state. Fascism first developed in Italy, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini (dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943) and later influenced the development of German fascism in the Nazi movement led by Adolf Hitler (dictator of Germany from 1933-1945) . While fascism increases the power and role of the state in society and suppresses free trade unions and political opposition, it preserves private ownership and private property. Fascism is political doctrine opposed to democracy and demanding submission to political leadership and authority. A key principle of fascism is the belief that the whole society has a shared destiny and purpose which can only be achieved by iron discipline, obedience to leadership and an all-powerful state. Fascism first developed in Italy, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini (dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943) and later influenced the development of German fascism in the Nazi movement led by Adolf Hitler (dictator of Germany from 1933-1945) . While fascism increases the power and role of the state in society and suppresses free trade unions and political opposition, it preserves private ownership and private property. Fascism is a form of extreme right-wing ideology that celebrates the nation or the
race as an organic community transcending all other loyalties. It emphasizes a myth of
national or racial rebirth after a period of decline or destruction. To this end, fascism
calls for a "spiritual revolution" against signs of moral decay such as
individualism and materialism, and seeks to purge "alien" forces and groups that
threaten the organic community. Fascism tends to celebrate masculinity, youth, mystical
unity, and the regenerative power of violence. Often, but not always, it promotes racial
superiority doctrines, ethnic persecution, imperialist expansion, and genocide. At the
same time, fascists may embrace a form of internationalism based on either racial or
ideological solidarity across national boundaries. Usually fascism espouses open male
supremacy, though sometimes it may also promote female solidarity and new opportunities
for women of the privileged nation or race. Fascism's approach to politics is both
populist--in that it seeks to activate "the people" as a whole against perceived
oppressors or enemies--and elitist--in that it treats the people's will as embodied in a
select group, or often one supreme leader, from whom authority proceeds downward. Fascism
seeks to organize a cadre-led mass movement in a drive to seize state power. - Matthew N.
Lyons (Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort). Liberty from oppressive government intervention in the daily lives of its citizens, from illicit searches and seizures, from enforced religious values, from intimidation and arrest for dissenters; and liberty to cast a vote in a system in which the majority ruled but the minority retained certain inalienable rights. Equality in the sense of civic equality, egalitarianism, the notion that while people differ, they all should stand equal in the eyes of the law. Fraternity in the sense of the brotherhood of mankind. That all women and men, the old and the young, the infirm and the healthy, the rich and the poor, share a spark of humanity that must be cherished on a level above that of the law, and that binds us all together in a manner that continuously re-affirms and celebrates life. This is what fascism as an ideology was reacting against_and its support came primarily from desperate people anxious and angry over their perception that their social and economic position was sinking and frustrated with the constant risk of chaos, uncertainty and inefficiency implicit in a modern democracy based on these principles. Fascism is the antithesis of democracy. remember.org/hist.root.what.html |
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