dictatorship of the majority

plural dictatorships of the majority

1. countableuncountableSynonym of tyranny of the majority.

   Both the Jacobins and Lenin believed in a temporary dictatorship of the majority over counterrevolutionary minorities.

   1985, Alex Callinicos, “Repressive toleration revisited”, in Aspects of Toleration, J. Horton and S. Mendus eds., →ISBN, page 64

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   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.

   1897, American Fabian, volumes 3-4, page 14

   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.

   2005, John Coakley, Michael Gallagher, Politics in the Republic of Ireland, →ISBN, page 67

   Synonyms: tyranny of the majority