POLITICAL DESPOTISM AND THE PROBLEM OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Despotism is an old problem and new as well, where many communities have been suffering from in the ancient ages, and within the human history, there was suffering from despotism and its results such as underdevelopment, and until the current time, there are many examples of tyrannical populations. This study discusses the political despotism, and shows that despotism is the main source of underdevelopment in all forms (scientific, economic, political, and ethical). Despotism opposite the development of human and prevent the outbreak of energies and the emergence of innovations and innovations, and this study highlight this matter by demonstrating some of despotic peoples in the present era and how despotism led to appearance of social diseases, poverty and underdevelopment in the country, these results will be explained by accurate statistics. The study emphasizes that communities and nations that have freedom and democracy have achieved significant scientific and economic development, where the government was not restricted to a certain group of people, but it was ruled by the freewill of the community who has the right to choose the ruler or the president of the nation.