Sure, if you use your own alternative definition of the terms, then all bets are off.
Authoritarianism is about how you’re pressured or forced to do things, and left/right is about what those things are.
I know that if we get too nuanced about all the many many dimensions of politics, then we’ll spend so all our time fighting semantics and get nothing done. But if you simplify down to a single axis then the terms lose all meaning and you likewise can’t communicate anything of meaning.
That article literally equates liberalism and leftism. Those are different, distinct things.
You know, it’s almost like the authors are just carrying that right-wing propaganda instead of checking the actual definitions of the terms they’re using…
Authoritarianism is right wing.
There is no “left wing authoritarianism”. If there is authoritarianism then it is right wing.
Yes, even that country. That one, too. And that one. Now you’re starting to get it.
Rightists love to use leftist labels whenever it suits their purposes. It’s called “propaganda”.
Sure, if you use your own alternative definition of the terms, then all bets are off.
Authoritarianism is about how you’re pressured or forced to do things, and left/right is about what those things are.
I know that if we get too nuanced about all the many many dimensions of politics, then we’ll spend so all our time fighting semantics and get nothing done. But if you simplify down to a single axis then the terms lose all meaning and you likewise can’t communicate anything of meaning.
There is 100% left wing authoritarianism, look at China today.
Statist chuds come in both flavours.
You mean fascism with red characteristics
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There is left wing authoritarianism
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1041391/full
That article literally equates liberalism and leftism. Those are different, distinct things.
You know, it’s almost like the authors are just carrying that right-wing propaganda instead of checking the actual definitions of the terms they’re using…
Liberalism is centrism.