• @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.

      • Lux
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        133 days ago

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

        • @Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          93 days 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!

          • @ReCursing
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            12 days ago

            No, but it;s better than one axis

      • @ReCursing
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        12 days 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