User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/From Louis XIV to Palpatine: Absolute Leadership/@comment-30228680-20120916212958/@comment-4727448-20120916222416

It depends.

If the dictatorship is heridtary (say Hitler's son takes pwoer when he dies), then it is an absolute monarchy, except the nobility titles and the such are missing.

If a new dictator has to be selected when the old one dies, then it is absolute but not a monarchy.