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[[File:Julius Caesar.png|thumb|217x217px|The enemies of [[Julius Caesar]] often described him as a tyrant.]]
[[File:Julius Caesar.png|thumb|217x217px|The enemies of [[Julius Caesar]] often described him as a tyrant.]]
'''Tyrant''' is an insult used to describe certain leaders. In [[Slavery|ancient times]], it referred to leaders who supported the lower classes against the [[Ruling class|oligarchy]] and attempted to create popular [[Democracy|democracies]].<ref>{{Web citation|date=2023-05-05|title=Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/24/debt-michael-hudson-oligarchies-greece-rome/|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528041512/https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/24/debt-michael-hudson-oligarchies-greece-rome/|archive-date=2023-05-28|author=[[Ben Norton]], [[Michael Hudson]]}}</ref> In [[Imperialism|modern times]], the [[bourgeois media]] slanders [[Socialist state|socialist states]] by calling them "tyrannies".<ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Martinez|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|title=How Western media manufactures consent for new cold war on China|date=2022-10-23|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/23/media-manufactures-consent-cold-war-china/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127071335/https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/23/media-manufactures-consent-cold-war-china/|archive-date=2023-01-27|retrieved=2023-05-29}}</ref>
'''Tyrant''' is an insult used to describe certain leaders. In [[Slavery|ancient times]], it referred to leaders who supported the lower classes against the [[Ruling class|oligarchy]] and attempted to create popular [[Democracy|democracies]].<ref>{{Web citation|date=2023-05-05|title=Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/24/debt-michael-hudson-oligarchies-greece-rome/|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528041512/https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/24/debt-michael-hudson-oligarchies-greece-rome/|archive-date=2023-05-28|author=[[Ben Norton]], [[Michael Hudson]]}}</ref> The [[Founding fathers of the United States|founding fathers]] of the [[United States of America|United States]] called democracy the "tyranny of the majority."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Crystal Kim|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Of, by, and for the elite: The class character of the U.S. Constitution|date=2022-10-19|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/class-character-of-the-u-s-constitution/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101071009/https://www.liberationschool.org/class-character-of-the-u-s-constitution/|archive-date=2022-11-01|retrieved=2022-11-24}}</ref> In [[Imperialism|modern times]], the [[bourgeois media]] slanders [[Socialist state|socialist states]] by calling them "tyrannies."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Martinez|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|title=How Western media manufactures consent for new cold war on China|date=2022-10-23|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/23/media-manufactures-consent-cold-war-china/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127071335/https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/23/media-manufactures-consent-cold-war-china/|archive-date=2023-01-27|retrieved=2023-05-29}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 12:09, 26 August 2023

The enemies of Julius Caesar often described him as a tyrant.

Tyrant is an insult used to describe certain leaders. In ancient times, it referred to leaders who supported the lower classes against the oligarchy and attempted to create popular democracies.[1] The founding fathers of the United States called democracy the "tyranny of the majority."[2] In modern times, the bourgeois media slanders socialist states by calling them "tyrannies."[3]

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