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dictatorship of the majority

noun

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  1. Synonym of tyranny of the majority.

    • 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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