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Social dictatorship

Name(s):

Minority control

Nature

Dictatorial leadership of social groupings, involving minority control or dictatorship of the majority, may be ethnic, religious, linguistic, ideological, professional or cross-cultural in character. Social dictatorship may lead ultimately to political dictatorship if the group in question is a predominant national community. It may lead to social conflict and disintegration.

In some ex-colonial and pluralistic societies, a class system and remnants of colonialism help maintain minority control. Effective control may be attained illegally by minority terrorist campaigns, facilitated by modern sophisticated weaponry.

Broader

Narrower

Single party democracies

Disruptive religious fundamentalism

Reduces

Decline in civic participation

Aggravates

Segregation ^{[in 14 loops]}

Class conflict ^{[in 8 loops]}

Racial conflict

Social conflict ^{[in 8 loops]}

Social injustice ^{[in 5 loops]}

Social inequality ^{[in 8 loops]}

Religious conflict ^{[in 4 loops]}

Political repression ^{[in 12 loops]}

Political dictatorship ^{[in 5 loops]}

Denial of the right of trade union association

Aggravated by

Militarism

Class consciousness

Revolutionary communism

Reduced by

Majority rule mindset

Strategy(ies)

Authenticating social dictatorship

Overthrowing social dictatorship

Value(s)

Self-control

Dictatorship

Unsociable

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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