Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoAnd 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.