• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days 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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        Left and right are generally agreed to be on the economic spectrum. Authoritarianism is not on this spectrum.

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          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!