Editing Abdur Rahman Khan (section)

===Authoritarian views===
Abdur Rahman Khan had a special likeing for statesmen with dictatorial tendencies. In his
view "the world would produce but few politicians like William (Unknown if he meant [[Wilhelm I]] or [[Wilhelm II]]), the [[German Emperor]], and Prince [[Otto von Bismarck|Bismarck]], the Imperial Chancellor, he is today seen by some Afghans as the "Bismarck of Afghanistan, due his similar state building of a centralized state." He praised [[William Ewart Gladstone]] and Imperial Russia's prime minister (Unknown if he meant [[Michael von Reutern]] or [[Nikolai von Bunge]]) merely as good politicians. He had great contempt for [[liberal democracy]] where the opposition could speak its mind and could even come to power. In his opinion the "constitution of the British government was not good, as one time the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] were in power, and at another the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberals]]".<ref>https://books.google.de/books/about/Government_and_Society_in_Afghanistan.html?id=ItaBBAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y</ref> Rahman also was a suppporter of [[centralisation]].<ref>https://www.afghan-web.com/biographies/biography-of-amir-abdur-rahman-khan/</ref><ref>https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53661</ref><ref>https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Rahman_Life_of_Abdur_Rahman_2vols.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251718760_State-Building_Migration_and_Economic_Development_on_the_Frontiers_of_Northern_Afghanistan_and_Southern_Tajikistan</ref>