• Packet [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Authoritarian is to hold power, in the basic sense. It is to have a state, and to enact that state power. Anarchist comrades will call any state or ideology authoritarian if it does not go against the state. I am not as well read on this as other, but this is the gist.

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      1 day ago

      Right that’s why I don’t understand @bubblybubbles’s point.

      All terms are made up, but it makes sense to have a definition for authoritarianism. It feels like we are just discussing semantics