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From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism!

Despotism Definition

(n.) The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.

(n.) A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the his...

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, stric...

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.