Dictatorship = one dude with a hat or moustache tells everyone to do funny dances (see: North Korea)
Everyone doing funny dances because their refusal or inability to do so would cause them to starve in the streets? And the system of social relations that keeps this situation going is being propped up by violent force on behalf of a constellation of powerful people who own everything? Democracy.
Dictatorship = one dude with a hat or moustache tells everyone to do funny dances (see: North Korea)
Everyone doing funny dances because their refusal or inability to do so would cause them to starve in the streets? And the system of social relations that keeps this situation going is being propped up by violent force on behalf of a constellation of powerful people who own everything? Democracy.