The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.30

c11.s5.30

This intervention is an ideological cognate or agnate of the war-communism (1914-18) or dictatorship of the state, of which it is indeed virtually an immediate successor. Some amount of "dictatorship" is by all means associated with this category. But it is not the dictatorship of Imperial despots, "enlightened" as they were, like the Mauryas, the Roman Emperors, the Bourbons, Frederick, Peter and Joseph. In the present instances the dictatorship is that of a party which covers if not the entire nation, at any rate, a very large section of the population, and which happens to have taken possession of the state (e.g., Russia, Italy, and Germany). Or, as in the U.S.A., Japan and England the Parliaments have by constitutional and legal methods virtually conferred dictatorial privileges on the party in power.