In 1979, he resigned from his official posts to assume the vague role of “Commander of the Revolution,” explaining that “the revolution must be separated from the authority of the state.” This led to what the scholar Moncef Djaziri described as a division of formal and informal authority.
卡扎菲显然更倾向于后者。1979年，他辞去公职担任“革命指挥官”这一模糊职务，并解释说“革命事业必须要和国家权力分开。”学者Moncef Djaziri所指的正式及非正式政府的分裂由此产生。