English-Finnish translations for despotism

• despotismi
  Toivon, että Orlando Zapatasta tulee Kuuban Pavel Wonka, toisin sanoen kommunistisen despotismin viimeinen uhri. I hope that Orlando Zapata will be the Cuban Pavel Wonka, in other words, the last victim of communist despotism.
  Euron syntyminen viitoittaa tietä, jolla pääomat, monikansalliset yritykset, despotismi ja sorto vievät loppuun Euroopan valtaamisen. The birth of the euro signals the march towards the integration of the notion of a Europe of capitalism, of multinationalism, of despotism and repression.
• itsevaltius

Definition of despotism

• government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way

Related words

• despotic
• despotically
• despoticalness
• adespotic