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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Every government holds authority by its very nature because it has monopoly on legal violence. The only question is whose interest this authority is exercised in. The term authoritarian is utterly devoid of all meaning, and it's used to keep ignorant westerners scared of real world alternatives to the dictatorship of capital.