• Pagliacci@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    How so? If the majority votes in authoritarian laws that are violently enforced on minority populations, is that not authoritarian?

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      1 year ago

      No, because a simple majority could also reverse them, it wouldn’t be authoritarian, it’d be fascistic.

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        1 year ago

        I know Wikipedia isn’t the ultimate arbiter of truth, but this is how it’s article on Fascism begins, and I think it would be fairly common for people to consider fascism a form of authoritarianism:

        Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

        FWIW I’m not meaning to attack democracy here, I find it to be far preferable to the other systems we have at our disposal. But it is a tool that can be used for good or bad.

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          1 year ago

          Well, it’s more like a large portion of the people voting would have to be fascistic, not that the system itself would be fascistic

          It’d be a weird contradiction to have such an anarchist system end up fascistic, I don’t think it’s a concern in the real world.