But just remember what went before: 74 years of communism and centuries of tsarist despotism.
Such market disruptions might be somewhat acceptable if this massive bureaucratic despotism accomplished something beneficial.
Theocratic despotism Taliban style, with its war on the education of women, is undefeated in Afghanistan.
They looked not to Athens, whose democracy quickly devolved from demagoguery into despotism, but to republican Rome.
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One is his insight that despotism has no dates, but can be ancient or modern, monarchical or democratic.
Mr Khatami was thwarted by his own timidity and by the despotism of the conservative forces ranged against him.
That is what those outsiders who see the Islamic Republic as a crude despotism lacking popular support sincerely hope.
But this statistic gives a misleadingly rosy impression of what a quarter-century of innumerate despotism does to a country.
Does anyone in the West, particularly the progressives in the media and academia, really want a world run by Chinese despotism?
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However, the very act of collecting petitions may well revitalize the struggle of civil society against the despotism of the Bolivarian regime.
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Already, the broad population is profoundly embittered with the corrupt tinpot despotism.
Democracy, therefore, to a Russian spells anarchy, something far worse than despotism.
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Few people certainly not Mr Bo or other contenders for power are calling for a return to Maoist despotism and an end to market economics.
Have no doubt: Helping the Chinese people liberate themselves from Communist despotism will be more difficult than was the job of taking down the USSR.
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In the past two years America and European countries have made the same mistake in Nigeria, an impoverished and unstable country emerging from years of corrupt despotism.
These acts are not exclusively African brutality, despotism and corruption exist everywhere but African societies, for reasons buried in their cultures, seem especially susceptible to them (see article).
After all, if the leader of the free West so readily bends the knee to Wahhabi despotism, how long before he bows to Iran, the true heir of proskunesis-Persia?
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This cannot simply be chalked up to the constraints of serving as a technocrat within the UN, where respect for sovereign states trumps such fine distinctions as despotism versus democracy.
These plans started unraveling in January 2011 when the Syrian people woke from 40 years of Assad despotism and agitated, at first nonviolently, then violently, for the overthrow of their tyrant.
It is disappointing to see The Economist confusing possible enlightened despotism, which we in Pakistan might not mind at all, with the more-of-the-same despotic self-interest that we know all too well.
The difference here is not so much between expressions of despotism and celebrations of democracy most statuary that inflates the human scale invites a deserving raspberry but in what else occupies public space.
That Greece invoked IMF help in late April, just after the anniversary of the April 21st 1967 coup, is seen by some in the Helleno-blogosphere as confirmation that the country faces a new period of foreign-backed despotism.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
It was history's odd timing: A great historical rupture in the Arab world, bearing within it the promise of remaking a flawed political tradition that knew no middle ground between despotism and nihilistic violence, happened on the watch of an American president proud of his deliberateness and his detachment from history's passions.
This is the great irony, that this may be hard for us to understand this, despite all our problems, that in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and communist ideology collapsed, there was an enormous amount of optimism - not least abroad -optimism about the future of a country that for, really, a thousand years has lived under nothing but despotism of one kind or another.
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