Although autocracy is primarily a political concept, the word can also be used in other contexts. In business, autocracy exists when top leader’s decisions are not checked and balanced by any other person, committee or institution. The function of monitoring performances and results of all subord...
3.(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the period during which a particular empire exists 4.(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) supreme power; sovereignty 5.(Commerce) a large industrial organization with many ramifications, esp a multinational corporation ...
and the rule of law to resist monarchy and theocracy, autocracy, and dictatorship, and hierarchical privilege, which set the foundation for bourgeois democracy in thought and theory. These western political philosophers and legal thinkers include Grotius, Hobbes, Bodin, Locke, Mill, Montesquieu, and...
practices, including rule of man, autocracy, theocracy, rule of the few, and extrajudicial privileges. Moreover, we must abandon illusions and practices like illegal rights, believing in havoc, power and money not in the law, and the illusion that law cannot be enforced when everyone is an ...
That my friends is clear autocracy at the cost of democracy. If there was fraud, Trump could make a case to overturn the results. However no fraud exists so he can’t.So now he’s trying to make a case that only HIS people can determine who will be President. However his people our...
added another, one which is especially potent in liberal and intellectual circles. This is a sort of ‘international patriotism’, so to speak — the idea that the world is divided between forces of “democracy” and “autocracy” (1914- 1918), or, this time, “freedom” and “fascism.”...
Shortly after, at Eli Klein’s prior gallery, Klein Sun’s, amazing Cai Dongdong: Photography Autocracy I discovered the work of Mr. Dongdong, now one of the best known Chinese Photographers. It was a wake-up call to what was going on in Chinese Contemporary Photography, and I wrote an...
assassinations, intimidation of journalists, baiting Muslims and targeting Tamil youth. Some of this may recur but history will not repeat itself in so parallel a way. Sri Lanka may slide into authoritarianism, not autocracy a la Mahinda. It will be by insidious institutional changes. ...
The political powers at the time generated a coup d’état to overthrow the government and bring about the downfall of the entire civilization by establishing a military autocracy, a ruthless dictatorship. Writers, artists, poets, playwrights, educators and singers were stifled, silenced, or killed...
It was so rich and so powerful, it made Trusy look like a backwards autocracy…which it actually was. Now, Maravilloso was a country unlike any other country. Ever. In the entire history of the world. It had never had a king, a queen, an emperor, a dictator, or a tyrant. Instead...