Dictatorship, The Global Problem

The story about being killed with the weapon you create

The “Dictatorship” can be defined as the autocratic rule, control, or leadership. It is a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique. The new generations in most of the western countries are unfamiliar to this shape of rule since the advent of the republics and the constitutional monarchy that arose as a substitute for absolute monarchies that were widespread in the seventeenth century. Whereas there are still some large geographic areas ruled by dictatorships such as most Arab countries, North Korea, China, Iran, etc.

Ever since WW2, the countries that won the war have been the organizers of how the world goes on, and made all other weak countries work to keep them wealthy and in control. Is it insane to believe so? Let me tell you something, I grew up in a country where no one believed in the possibility of being an individual free to express self-thoughts and goals; to be able to reveal the rejection of the fake laws without being punished by the tyrants who used to rule with iron and fire. If you think the Syrian regime had figured out how to govern the country in such a way for more than half a century with no one whispering in the left ear, you might need to reconsider your thoughts.

The Soviets were the first who stood next to the regime there in its early beginnings in 1963. They supplied it with free weapons to control the country and to suppress other military movements of any other possible coups. And later in Arab Spring, Russia’s secret role in there has become overt; especially after sending their army to fight shoulder to shoulder next to the regime forces in their war against the free will of Syrians.

In Syria, the dictatorship represented in Albaath party and its repressive structures were based on three lies and kept marketing them to the public:

• The “Unity” of Arab countries: Arab countries have a lot in common that make all Arabs dream of unity. Albaath party has always played on people’s passions to clench its fist on the authority the same way that Khrushchev and Communist Party followed when they relied on propaganda and patriotism to keep the economy going in the 1950s.
• The “Freedom” principle: The party pretended to give priority to the freedom related issues. But all of what they were doing was to repress people’s hopes for freedom. No one was allowed to criticize the ruling party, announced its formation of an opposition party, or to create an educational institution outside the regime’s oppressive frameworks. No one could have remained safe with what he had said even before Albaath Party was in power.
• The “Socialism”: Of course, whoever was affiliated with the Soviet Union was obligated to carry socialism thought at that time. Therefore, the aim of the call to implement socialism was simply to subordinate to the socialist camp system which was providing the movements loyal to it with money and arms, and certainly not because Albaath Party liked the basic idea of socialism that allows everyone to be equal in economic life where most classes of the society remained below the average standard of living in comparative with the high wealth for the rulers.

In 2011, Syrians devoted their lives to the revolution against these lies of the dictatorship but their dictator Bashar Al Assad made a horrible mistake when he stood against the people’s demands for social justice. But unlike other Arab countries, Syria was the place where bloodshed destroyed all the hopes and aspirations of the revolutıoners in their uprising.

After 2014, millions of refugees started to leave the country after the war of the century running for their lives and getting far away from where they were being killed, arrested, or chased by the systematic intimidation that the regime’s oppressive apparatus was applying on them. When the big countries accepted the dictatorships to be viral, they agreed unintentionally to a dangerous weapon to be created. That weapon might be used later to make them killed. Remember that it is all about the economy that allows capitalist countries to take over the world.

We have all seen how the global anger towards dictatorships has gone beyond the limits of demonstrations, turning into armed liberation movements that resist the brutality of regimes. And because of the unlimited support from big countries to some dictators, people started to migrate seeking asylum, Syrians are only the start of hundreds of millions of other nations will follow them. They all need food to stay alive, places to live in, foundations to organize their activities, and the most important thing is money that rules the economy and comes from the collected taxes from citizens of the same big countries that accepted the dictatorships that led us to this point.

People will understand these facts sooner or later, and take some serious steps to change the equation in the whole global system.