• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Authoritarian left… What is this?

    It’s an oxymoron. Authoritarianism is right-wing regardless of how the “authority” brands itself.

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      3 months ago

      Left and right are generally agreed to be on the economic spectrum. Authoritarianism is not on this spectrum.

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        3 months ago

        And thus the political compass came to be, deciding that one axis on a sliding scale wasn’t enough to capture the nuances of political ideologies, but two axes was plenty!

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      3 months ago

      The right claim that authoritarianism is a left-wing thing. I had an argument with someone who claimed that anarchocommunists could not possibly exist. You’re bnoth wrong, authoritarianism is an orthogonal axis