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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Authoritarian rule lives in the extremes of both left and right (fascism, social-nationalism, socialism, communism, theocracies).
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I hate to mince, but I think perhaps Stalinism, non-revisionist (kimism), Castroism, etc may indeed be authoritarian, but saying all forms of socialism (which encompasses communism) must be authoritarian is not entirely true anymore than saying all capitalism leads to plutarchy and oligarchy. Just for accuracy here. I mean i get that you would probably quote Marx as saying "the dictatorship of the proletatriat", but thats hardly the end all be all on socialism in all of its modern forms and thought. Especially since many originally conceived it to exist with democracy in the long run. There are in fact operating social democracies of some form or another in most of europe. Just a pet peeve there.