Meaning of dictatorship of the majority | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of tyranny of the majority.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“As to the reproach that Socialists desire either the dictatorship of the proletariat over the higher classes—or the dictatorship of the majority over the minority, Herr Liebknecht successfully disposes of these accusations.”

“Both the Jacobins and Lenin believed in a temporary dictatorship of the majority over counterrevolutionary minorities.”

“The ease with which the will of the greater number may be translated into the dictatorship of the majority has not yet become the subject of public debate.”

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