Dictatorships ever see themselves as saviours of the nation or guardians of the peace. Every dictatorship is controlled by economics. If the economy collapses, the desperate come out onto the streets demanding bread. When the police begin to shoot they demand bread and freedom. Such is the natural order of things.
Economic collapse leads to revolt born of despair, economic growth to rebellion born of aspiration.
This rebellion also permeates the inner reaches of the dictatorship. Increasing numbers of people from the ruling apparatus find they no longer want to be sitting on a time-bomb. They are tempted to introduce a rationalised system of democratic reform. Reforms introduced from within the dictatorship are invariably intended to change everything so that nothing changes. The dialectic of change depends on that singular encounter between a reformer from within the dictatorship and a reformer from the opposition.