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minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 days ago Authoritarian left… What is this? It’s an oxymoron. Authoritarianism is right-wing regardless of how the “authority” brands itself.
minus-squareLux@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoLeft and right are generally agreed to be on the economic spectrum. Authoritarianism is not on this spectrum.
minus-squareAshelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoAnd 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!
It’s an oxymoron. Authoritarianism is right-wing regardless of how the “authority” brands itself.
Left and right are generally agreed to be on the economic spectrum. Authoritarianism is not on this spectrum.
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!
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