Useful facts you must know about Democracy and Dictatorship

Points to Remember

1. Dictatorship is one man’s arbitrary rule.

2. In dictatorship only one party is allowed to exist.

3. Leadership of the nation is given to a single man.

4. There is to be only one political party.

5. Individual liberty is conspicuous by its absence.

6. People are made intensely nationalistic.

1. A totalitarian state is established.

8. They believe in racialism.

9. World War II gave a death blow to dictatorship.

Democracy vs Dictatorship:

1. Democracy emphasizes rights; dictatorship emphasis duties.

2. Democracy believes in equality; dictatorship in hierarchy.

3. Democracy lays stress on the individual; dictatorship on the state.

4. Democracy lays stress on the freedom of speech, press and association whereas dictatorship categorically denies these freedoms.

5. Democracy believes in reason; dictatorship in blind obedience.