When is it Dictatorship?

What is dictatorship,? Explained. Dictatorship questions answered, including its distinction with authoritarianism, totalitarianism and monarchy. ★Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/williamcfox ★Subscribe on Substack: https://www.williamcfox.substack.com Rome's Dictatorship History of Rome by Mommsen Translated by Dickson. 1875. (see Wilson critique) Dictator: The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship by Mark Wilson 2022 T. Corey Brennan The Praetorship in the Roman Republic (2000) Gregory Kung Golden Crisis Management during the Roman Republic (2013) 2010 KU Thesis. A New Perspective Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 by Easton The Constitution of the Roman Republic, A. Lintott 1999 Mary Beard. SPQR A History of Ancient Rome. The Roman Empire A Historical Encyclopedia 2 volumes James W. Ermatinger The Constitution of the Roman Republic Andrew Lintott 2003 Roman Civilization: Selected Readings The Empire, Volume 1, third edition Lewis & Reinhold (Aulus Gellius excerpt) Caesar Barry Strauss. The Death of Caesar Plutarch. The Life of Julius Caesar ~75CE ; also, Life of Brutus APPIAN. THE CIVIL WARS. ~162CE Cassius Dio: Roman History Nicolaus of Damascus: Life of Augustus Suetonius, The Lives of the twelve Caesars M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) C. D. Yonge, Ed. Cicero TO ATTICUS 28 MAY Cicero De Officiis Mcahiavelli The Prince ~1510s Discourses on Livy ~1510s Professor William R. Cook Lectures 12-22 Benner, Erica.Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom_. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017 Mansfield, Harvey C. Machiavelli’s Virtue. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996 Skinner, Quentin.Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 Strauss, Leo.Thoughts on Machiavelli. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1958 Harvard Program on Constitutional Government. "Is Machiavelli a Moralist or a Realist?" Harvard Program on Constitutional Government."Is Machiavelli a Philosopher?" YaleCourses. 10&11. New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli's The Prince Carl Schmitt Dictatorship, 1921. Goethe Institut Translation 2013 Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty 2006 by Carl Schmitt, George Schwab (Translator), Tracy B. Strong (Foreword) Essay: Dictatorship (1926) by Carl Schmitt Montesquieu Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline by Montesquieu 1734 The Spirit of Law by Montesquieu 1748 Rousseau On Social Contract 1762 Bertram, Christopher. "Rousseau's Legacy in Two Conceptions of the General Will: Democratic and Transcendent." The Review of Politics, vol. 74, no. 3, 2012, pp. 403–419. De Wilde, Marc. "Silencing the Laws to Save the Fatherland: Rousseau's Theory of Dictatorship between Bodin and Schmitt." History of European Ideas, vol. 45, no. 8, 2019, pp. 1107–1124. Bertram, Christopher. "Jean Jacques Rousseau." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2023 Edition. Szelényi, Ivan. "5. Rousseau: Popular Sovereignty and General Will." YaleCourses Locke Two Treatises on Government Locke 1689 Hobbes Leviathan 1651 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Spring 2025 Edition) Duncan, Stewart. "Thomas Hobbes." YaleCourses 12-14. The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan" (Prof. Steven Smith) French Revolution Sieyes What is the Third Estate via The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief History with Documents by Lynn Hunt Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, 1835 The Doctrine of Fascism byMussolini and Giovanni Gentile. 1932. Lenin: The State and Revolution, 1917. Accessed via Marxist Archive “A Brief History of the State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben.” “Appian of Alexandria | Roman Empire, Punic Wars, Civil Wars | Britannica.” Gagliardi, Lorenzo. “Leges Liciniae Sextiae.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics. 2017. Manuwald, Jeffrey Henderson • Gesine. “Marcus Terentius Varro’s on the Latin Language: Book V: Chapter XIV: Section 82.” Loeb Classical Library. Accessed January 19, 2026. “Marcus Furius Camillus | Facts & Biography | Britannica.” January 2, 2026. “Marcus Terentius Varro | Roman Scholar, Author & Philosopher | Britannica.” 00:00-01:32 Intro 01:33-10:09 Paradox of Law 10:10-1:28:58 Roman Dictatorship 1:28:59-1:51:07 Sulla Dictatorship 1:51:08-2:36:10 Caesar Dictatorship 2:36:11-3:38:10 Two Types of Dictatorship 3:38:11-5:00:46 Sovereign & Social Contract 5:00:47-5:32:47 Takeaway Stock video and imagery provided by Getty Images.