The Napoleonic Empire
Since the human being is known, he has sought to relate, that is why he has grouped into groups with his peers; At first these were considerably small groups and were known as the herds. Little by little, the man was expanding the size of his pack becoming the first communities, it is noteworthy that regardless of the size of the pack, an alpha was always established, that person who was in command of the group who had to ensure well -being of each of the people who were subordinated to him.
As societies increased their number of members, the person in command was acquiring more and more power, faculties and special considerations; It is to such an extent that in the great civilizations of history they considered their ruler as a descendant of the very gods to those who flattened, which, little by little it was giving way to corruption and authoritarianism, the king created the laws to the same Time that they made sure that they were fully fulfilled by all except for those who thus consider, for example, their family or intimate friends.
This was the case of the French society of the late 18 form that a single person would no longer govern but an assembly.
Unfortunately, this cause remained in the theory because once the monarchy was abolished, a republican government formed in French society, which after a long time suffered the same corruption problems of those who were claimed to the previous form of government; This new government was called the Board of Directors. This Government was overthrown by a coup d’etat carried out by the General of War Napoleon Bonaparte, who assumed power on November 9 of the year 1799 this government appeared to have transparency to have 4 legislative institutions to write and approve the laws however These were easily manipulated by Napoleon giving absolute control over the country’s legislature; He little by little he was further centralizing the power of the State over himself, reaching the point of being able to manipulate the constitution of the country, returning to the same point at which he was prior to the exploding of the revolution years ago; In addition to the fact that in the same process he had the ambition to ensure that France became an empire that covered all of Europe.
The objective of this essay is to demonstrate the correlation that exists between the authoritarian centralization of the power of a State and the degree of corruption, ambitions and despotism that the leaders of this same nation manifest. For which I will use 2 arguments about other authoritarian and centralized governments of different nations whose maximum authorities have expressed the psychological characteristics previously established at the beginning of the paragraph, these periods are: Adolf Hitler’s government on Germany prior to World War 2 and The Government of Hugo Chávez Frías in Venezuela at the beginning of the 21st century.
As the first argument we have the government of Adolf Hitler, he acquired ideals against the Jews during his formation in Vienna, during the First World War Hitler was nothing more than a soldier on the battlefield, however, after the German defeat He did not take to blame the communists and Jews who were part of the German government structure of that time, thanks to his skills with the oratory the little by little he was climbing his position in the army promoting his nationalist ideals and against those that the authority considered "impure races". When he came to power, he established a campaign against this same population, a despotic action since he literally massacred at his own will without any body of the State interceding in the matter. Another feeling that Hitler accused or rather fueled in the German population was the resentment of the events of the First World War which encouraged Hitler’s ambitions to ensure that the German empire conquered all of Europe, an action that would have achieved if it was not for the Allied intervention.
With this we observed as the increase in the power that Hitler possessed the figure of this in addition to increasing the despotic and racist actions that he openly performed against those he called "impure races".
The second argument that I am going to use was the arrival of the government of Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, a Venezuelan military who participated in the coup attempt that developed against the government of the Government at that time of Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez (1992) Due to the difficult economic and social situation of the years after this, when launched by Chávez’s candidacy for the presidential elections of 1998 with promises to break with the political paradigms that were maintained to date as were corruption and abuses of authority, triumphed flatly at the polls so that he was elected president.
In the same way that in the previous governments exposed these promises were only in paper and were never carried out, the corruption problems further deepened thanks to the facilities provided by the socioeconomic model of socialism that the administration of it had adopted; In addition to corruption problems, arbitrary expropriations were developed with the excuse of seeking to motivate national production, which was not achieved and rather it was the beginning of a much more pronounced economic decline whose ravage lasts until today.
Based on this we can conclude that effectively as a person acquires more power is more prone to commit acts of corruption and despotism in addition to their ambitions are increased, it is also appreciated that people with military training who come to power of a nation tend to form authoritarian governments and in some cases even despotic.
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