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In reply to the discussion: Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)There is no place here that is authoritarian on this graph. Unless YOU interpret the right conservative as being exclusively authoritarian. I'm sorry but communism IS authoritarian, and democratic socialism is very libertarian and more equivalent to populism and should be on the oppose end of one axis even if both are considered "left". It makes no sense to consider libertarianism "opposite" to populism. I don't like the notion that communism is equivalent to democratic socialism, because someone calls both of them "far let". Anarchy (non-partisan) is at the opposite end of dictatorship (non-partisan authoritarianism). The graph repeated here does not show any extreme authoritarian versus anarchy (labeled libertarian) axis that can either be left or right wing labeled, but in fact is almost equivalent if there are no rules or only a few who rule everyone else with no room for independence in an authoritarian state.