• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There is actually technically no such thing as an authoritarian leftist

    AES would suggest otherwise

    But then “authoritarian” is just code for “people in charge who I don’t like”. It’s how you get liberals who gleefully repost “Trump is a Nazi” but recoil at “Abolish ICE” or “Boycott Israel”.

    Communists are authoritarian when they gain power because capitalists hate them. Capitalists are libertarians when they’re in charge because they pad each other’s wallets