Word: dictatorship
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...socialist state, a temporary phase during which a revolutionary elite would rule in the name of the working class until all vestiges of the old order were dismantled. Then socialism would give way to true Communism; the state would wither away. So would the elite, or "the dictatorship of the proletariat," as it became known...
...Marxist prophecy, while in his policies he set about battening down the here and now of socialism and deferring forever the promised millennium of true Communism. The last thing he wanted, or would tolerate, was any move that would cause the state to wither or that would mitigate the dictatorship of the Communist Party...
...Trotsky, once declared, "The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence." Violence was institutionalized in two forms, the secret police for dealing with internal threats to Soviet rule and the Red army for dealing with external ones. From the birth of the Soviet Union, both institutions enjoyed special powers and privileges...
Gaddafi preaches democracy; he practices dictatorship. In April 1980, he ordered all Libyan dissidents living abroad to return home or face "liquidation." By the end of that year, at least twelve Libyans had been hunted down and murdered in England, Italy, West Germany, Greece and Lebanon by Gaddafi-anointed hit squads. Most of the victims were little-known private citizens, and it is doubtful that they posed a threat to Tripoli. Instead, their killings were presumably intended to set an example. So Byzantine are Gaddafi's methods that when Libyan Hitman Abdel Nabih Swaiti, who was tried and convicted...
...generation of American social history, the way a shooting star can become a falling star when Reed collides with the true "intractables" of the infant Soviet bureaucracy. To carry the moviegoer through the passionate debates on socialism, organized labor and the right of the Comintern to establish a proletarian dictatorship as rigid as the Tsar's, Beatty banks on star quality-and it works...