Who Is Thomas Hobbes Under The Rule Of Dictatorship

Introduction
Speaking on human nature, London-born philosopher Thomas Hobbes commented that, “…the natural state of man’s life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. All mankind [is in] a perpetual and restless desire for power that stops only in death.” The Leviathan (1651) pt1 ch.12. Governments we created so as to protect people from their own selfishness and evil. Recorded history has reveals that man has exceeded his tyrannical rule of totalitarian dictatorship whenever he gets half-a-chance. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes). Dictatorship according to the Oxford dictionary as, “the form of government where power is centralized and is usually in the hands of a single individual. The population has no say in those matters.” Egypt, Syria and China, just to name a few, are countries still run

Over the years, the world has seen a number of infamous dictators who have exploited their fellow countrymen each in their own time periods, in addition, the 20th Century having the most cynical and destructive dictators in world history. The likes of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini Gaddafi among others. (“The world's enduring dictators". CBS News. May 16, 2011), (http://www.globalresearch.ca/). Dictatorship does not necessarily result in the development of a nation. Nevertheless, there have been nations that have benefitted socio-economically from this type of governance. [Brooker, Paul. 2000. Non-Democratic Regimes: Theory, Government, and Politics. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Chapter 3: The Emergence of Military Dictatorships (pp.59-80)]. Thus, in this article we shall take a look at whether dictatorship in comparison to democracy the best path to development and the effects on countries under