Yes, I understand that you would like to change definitions that you personally dislike. But for the rest of the world, communists can be, and often are, right wing authoritarians. Although the more colloquial term is “tankie”. And yes, the word authoritarian has a clearly defined meaning in academia.
How is what you are doing here not authoritarian by your own standard? You’re behaving poorly, acting in obvious bad faith, because someone went against your conventions, didnt submit to the authority of the concept of “authoritarianism” and you’re defending it aggressively.
Maybe if you actually answered my questions I would have an easier time understanding, because right now the definition you have given me could describe almost everyone. That’s why I wanted you to avoid just using variations of the word to begin with.
Yes, I understand that you would like to change definitions that you personally dislike. But for the rest of the world, communists can be, and often are, right wing authoritarians. Although the more colloquial term is “tankie”. And yes, the word authoritarian has a clearly defined meaning in academia.
No? Nobody thinks communists are right-wing, and the concept of “authoritarianism” is itself disputed.
In your mind, maybe.
Nope, I linked a reputable academic critiquing the very subject.
A critique of using the word totalitarian to describe specifically nazi Germany and the USSR. That is not the same thing.
No, it isn’t the same thing, but the critique holds for the concept of “totalitarianism” and “authoritarianism” themselves. Did you read it?
I did.
Once again, you are conflating theory of state with individual choice.
Which also makes evident that you did not do the reading I suggested. C’est la vie.
I am not confusing it, the very concept of “authoritarianism” is suspect, both in the way you define it and in the coloquial sense.
Fine. Let’s not call it authoritarianism. Let’s call it aboritarianism,
Same three criteria, different word. Happy?
How is what you are doing here not authoritarian by your own standard? You’re behaving poorly, acting in obvious bad faith, because someone went against your conventions, didnt submit to the authority of the concept of “authoritarianism” and you’re defending it aggressively.
Maybe if you actually answered my questions I would have an easier time understanding, because right now the definition you have given me could describe almost everyone. That’s why I wanted you to avoid just using variations of the word to begin with.