• @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months 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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      142 months 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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        92 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!

        • @ReCursing
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          12 months ago

          No, but it;s better than one axis

    • @ReCursing
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      12 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