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The political party is a contemporary form of dictatorship. It is the latest modern dictatorial instrument of government, whereby the part rules the whole. Comprised of a group as opposed to an individual, a political party is able nevertheless to attribute a semblance of democracy to itself through the formation of councils and committees, and through the propaganda activities of its members.

But a political party is not in any respect a democratic instrument. It is an organization formed by individuals who share the same interests, ideas, culture, place or doctrine. They come together to form a political party so that they may realize their interests or impose their ideas or the might of their doctrine on society as a whole, with the intention of seizing power as a mean to implement their political program.

Democratically, none of these individuals or members of a political party should rule over a whole people who constitute diverse interests, opinions, dispositions, places and beliefs. A political party is a dictatorial instrument of government which enables those with the same ideas or interests to rule over the people as a whole. In actual fact the party constitutes only a small minority.

The purpose of organizing a political party is to create an instrument with which to govern the people, the non-party members of the populace.

Fundamentally, political parties are based on a domineering and despotic theory: the manipulation of the people by the party leadership alleges that its rise to power is a means to realizing the party’s objectives, and assumes that its objectives also represent the aspirations of the people. Such theorizing is a justification for party dictatorship, and it is the theory presented by any dictatorship.

Regardless of their diversity, political parties set forth theories that basically the same. Yet it is the plurality of parties that escalates the struggle for power which usually supersedes and destroys any achievements gained by the people, and also subverts any socially beneficial plans. Such destruction and subversion is meant to justify the opposition party’s attempts to undermine the ruling party it aims to replace.

In their fight against each other, political parties seldom engage in armed strife; instead they usually resort to mud-slinging tactics to discredit one another. Their battle inevitably rages beyond society’s vital and prime interests, and of these some, if not all, may fall victim of this wrangling and be destroyed. However, this situation serves to support the arguments of the opposition parties against the ruling party or coalition.

In order to rule, the opposition party must defeat the existing instrument of government. To do so, the opposition must undermine the government’s achievements and cast doubts on its plans, to prove the incompetence of the current governing instrument even if these plans were beneficial to society. Consequently, the interests and programs of society become the victims of the power struggle raging among the political parties.

Although the struggle for the power among political parties stimulates political activity, it nevertheless has a devastating impact on political, social and economic levels. It invariably, it culminates in the triumph of just another instrument of power - the downfall of one political party and the rise of another, but also in the defeat of the people, and thus the defeat of democracy. It should be added here that political parties can also be bribed or corrupted by both internal and external interests.

Initially, a political party is formed to represent the people. However it does not take long for the party leadership to become the representative of the party members, then for the head of the party to become the representative of the elite. It is clear that this is a game of deceitful farce based on a false form of democracy, which has underlying selfish and authoritarian intensions that are fraudulently pursued with maneuvering and political games. This confirms the fact that the party system is a modern instrument of dictatorship which the world has not yet eradicated. It is the dictatorship of the modern age.

When a parliament is formed by a winning political party, it becomes an assembly representative of this party, and the executive power formed by such an assembly becomes the party’s instrument of authority over the people. Thus, the party which is supposed to exercise power in the interest of all the people, is actually the arch-enemy of a large proportion of the people, namely the party or parties of the opposition and their supporters. This does not make the opposition the popular guardian over seeing the performance of the ruling party, but rather it is itself lying in wait for the opportunity to replace it. The legal guardian over seeing the ruling party, according to the principles of modern democracy, is parliament. But since members of the ruling party constitute the majority in parliament, supervision of the ruling party’s performance in government comes from within its own party, i.e. the ruling party supervises itself. This state of affairs illustrates the deceit, falseness and invalidity of the political theories prevalent in the world today, and it is these which are the source of contemporary traditional democracy.

The political party is the modern-day equivalent of the tribe or sect. A society which is ruled by a one-party system is similar to a society which is governed one tribe or one sect, because, as noted above, a political party represents the vision of one group, or the interests of one social group, or one belief or place, and therefore represents a minority of the people. Similarly, a tribe or a sect represents a minority of the people, and has its own particular interests or belief from which its vision formed. While the blood tie constitutes the only difference between a tribe and a political party, indeed a tribe could have been the basis for the foundation of a party. There is no difference between a political party’s struggle for power and a tribal or sectarian struggle for power. Just as a tribal or sectarian regime is politically condemned and rejected, a political party regime should likewise be condemned and rejected: they all follow the same course which leads to the same outcome. The impact of the struggle of political parties on society is as damaging and devastating as that of any tribal or sectarian struggle.

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