For those in the West, it can be difficult to understand just exactly what dictatorship means.

By launching wars, he tried to divert the people's attention and reduce their discontent with him in order to consolidate his dictatorship.

Although the claim at first sounds preposterous — who could possibly argue that a dictatorship is subject to the will of the people?

Nor did he foresee the excesses committed in pursuit of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

He thought he can both have deregulation and strengthened dictatorship, but pluralistic society is not incompatible with monopoly.