All corruption is self-centeredness. That means everything corrupt persons do is in conflict with the interests of other persons. It also means corrupt persons will not allow external impositions upon themselves including laws and rules that they must adhere to. When laws are imposed upon them, they go into a concealment mode to hide their defiance.

Corruption creates an obsession for freedom, but not the usual concept of freedom. It's a strange concept of freedom based upon self-centeredness. It's not the type of freedom that an ordered social state produces, where stop signs make driving more convenient.

The obsessive freedom of self-centeredness is an attempt to get out from under any external influence. First, there is the need to dominate that corrupters acquire. They assume that if they can prevail against others it will solve their problems. Yet rational existence attempts to prevent domination from occurring, as it prevents the victims from leading their own lives. So corrupters are subconsciously trying to turn the universe upside down to make domination socially acceptable.

Trying to make domination socially acceptable is like trying to create a stick with only one end. For someone to dominate, there must be victims who are dominated. How can anyone be dominating and dominated at the same time? Corrupters cannot get their head around that fact, because their self-centeredness removes their awareness of the concerns of their victims.

Then there is the whole reason why corrupters go down the dominating path: They are incapable of dealing with the demands placed upon them by rational existence; so they look for a shortcut solution to their problems, and domination is what they find. When impositions are placed upon them, they try to eradicate the impositions, which includes laws and expectations of rational existence.

The end result of self-centeredness and its obsession with domination while not be imposed upon could not be anything other than a totalitarian dictatorship of the autocratic type. Each corrupter is the center of his universe and will not tolerate any influence upon himself.

As corrupters work together to promote their self-contradictory purposes, they move toward one-person rule. They can tolerate another person like themselves running their lives while promoting their purposes and values, because they identify with the result, and it becomes of part of themselves. What their group does is what they do; so they don't feel like they are being imposed upon under autocratic rule.