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سیاسی و روابط بین الملل::
دیکتاتوری کلاسیک
Even this very superficial overview should make it clear that the system in which we live has very little in common with a classical dictatorship.
In the stale- mated world of nuclear parity, of course, that circumstance endows the system with an unprecedented degree of external stability com- pared with classical dictatorships.
In the second place, if a feature of classical dictatorships is their lack of historical roots (frequently they appear to be no more than historical freaks, the fortuitous consequence of fortuitous social processes or of human and mob tendencies), the same cannot be said so facilely about our system.
Whereas succession to power in classical dictatorship is always a rather complicated affair (the pretenders having nothing to give their claims reasonable legitimacy, thereby forcing them always to resort to confrontations of naked power), in the post-totalitarian system power is passed on from person to person, from clique to clique, and from generation to generation in an essentially more regular fashion.
Here, by the way, is one of the most important differences between the post- totalitarian system and classical dictatorships, in which this line of conflict can still be drawn according to social class.
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