独裁の安定と不安定
現在の中国やロシアでは、独裁的な政治体制になっているようだ。洋の東西を問わず、封建時代は豪族や国王は世襲制であり、独裁体制であることが多かった。
このような時代に、代替わりは非常に大きな事件の引き金になる事が多い。
君主が死んで、跡目争いが発生し数ヶ月も葬儀が行われず、君主の死体から蛆が沸いて、死体の部屋からはみ出したというおぞましい逸話がある。歴史の本を読むと、暗殺の話が当然のように出てくるのも、相続勝者の総取りが原則になっているからだろう。
独裁は、平常時には組織は安定的であるが、反対に代替わりの際には非常に組織が不安定になるという特徴がある。組織の長や国家元首の選出プロセスは、独裁制と民主制では異なる訳だが、高度で多様な現代社会においては、独裁制よりも民主制の方がより有効であるだろう。
Stability and instability of dictatorship
Currently, China and Russia appear to have dictatorial political systems. In the feudal era, ruling families and kings were hereditary, and the political system was often dictatorial, regardless of whether it was in the East or the West.
In era like these, replacements of ruler often trigger very big incidents.
There is a horrifying anecdote that when a monarch dies, a dispute arose over the succession, and the funeral was not held for several months, and maggots grew from the corpse of the monarch and crawled out of the room where the corpse was put. When you read history books, stories of assassinations come up as a matter of course, probably because the principle of inheritance is that the winner takes all.
Dictatorships are characterized by stable organizations during normal times, but on the contrary, in the event of replacement, the organization becomes extremely unstable. The process of selecting the head of an organization or the head of state is different between dictatorships and democracies, but in today's sophisticated and diverse society, democracies are likely to be more effective than dictatorships.
