The Famous Republik : Lessons in The Practice of Authocratic Rule

  The Republic becomes an Empire and the future hangs in the balance.Everyone is a victim and nobody knows who is the next victim?  Photo: Uche Okeke
               
The Famous Republik; describes the lives of people ''strongly united under one Powerful Rule''- 'Outrage, Division, Hardships, Dangers.

What happens when a Ruthless, Divisive, King runs an Empire:

"There is only one person who is Master in this Empire and I am not going to tolerate any other"-Wihelm
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The Private life of the master is not subject to public discussion-('Behave or Be Whipped- The Economist').

Men who opened the way for the invasion of their country and render its conquest easy are afterwards crushed by the invading King so that there would be 'no one else to fear, nothing to dread', else the King will lose the State whenever occassion serves them. The King could never think his reign safe until the Chiefs of the Republic are crushed.

The King resolved to depend no longer on the 'arms or fortune' of others, his first step therefore was to weaken the factions so that only him will be in total control and 'the hopes of all vested on him alone'. The strategy is to change the existing order of things by throwing the state into confusion in order to make himself the 'master'.

Naturally the Chiefs of the Republic will not just fold their hands. The King must be injured. If injury has to be done to the King it should be so severe that "his vengance must not be feared"- Niccolo Machiavelli.

Lastly, "The Prince speedily gaining possession speedily lost it when the very people who had opened the gates found themselves decieved in their expectations and hopes of future benefits could not put up with the insolence, outrageous vices of the Prince"- Niccolo Machiavelli(The Prince).

 Everything depends on Politics. The old wisest man , Machiavelli also advised that : "Strong Republics are those who harness the power of their citizens". Authoritarianism undermines democracy and brings human suffering and hardships. It must be defeated and rejected. Free societies are those that defeated and rejected dictatorship.

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Uche Okeke is a Social Entrepreneur.