• Letstakealook
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    3 days ago

    Authoritarian left political positions are very real. What is this?

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      2 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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        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