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The issue with using language such as “dictatorship” and “authoritarian” is those words have specific negative colloquial connotations. For example, one of the dictionary (Merriam-Webster) definitions of “authoritarian” is: of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people This definition specifies a singular “leader or an elite” and would be incompatible with a definition that includes rule by the proletariat. Similarly, here is one of Merriam-Webster’s definitions for “dictatorship”: a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique