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Still not seeing any meaningful difference posted besides your tautological reasoning. All government is inherently authoritarian. That is how government inherently works and is defined. It can't not be.
Saying some governments are magically different because they are isn't anything logical. It's repeating 1940s era propaganda made exclusively to make Americans feel like they weren't so bad.
Oh, "everyone's bad so I can side with who I want". What a thought.
No, quite the opposite. I would encourage you to learn how to read one day.
Authortiarianism is a made up concept to separate the American public, who during the 1940s very much wanted to side with Nazi Germany and did not want to enter the war, and the 'Axis of Evil;' so that the American Military Industrial complex, against the wishes of its people and despite having the exact same ideology as the average fascist, could enter the war and make one of the largest transfers of wealth from poor to rich in world history happen.
It has no actual definition that excludes any government. Meaning it's a meaningless distinction when you cut through the propaganda Nothing an 'authoritarian government' has ever been accused of doing is exclusive to them; and by a prima facie reading of the term gives you the difference between lower case a anarchism and actual society -- i.e. nothing useful when discussing the merits of ways to run a society, just the fact a society exists.
Cuba is a democracy. China is a democracy. There's plenty of propaganda that says otherwise because they do not do their government in English and Americans are the least linguistically capable peoples in the history of the world so it's difficult for you people to check anything. Because learning spanish is just too difficult. There's plenty of differences in how those democracies function compared to 'liberal western democracy' or US democracy. None of them are more 'authoritarian' than the others.
Cuba is a democracy.
So black is white and white is black.
Blocked.