• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Authoritarianism is not a thing, and you can tell it’s not a thing by how nobody who uses it can define it in a way that doesn’t include every government on earth.

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      12 days ago

      Authoritarianism is a system of institutionalized domination, and yes this includes pretty much every government on earth currently.

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        12 days ago

        Pretty much, or every? Can you think of a government that doesn’t fit this description? Because we already have a word for a system of institutionalized domination, and that word is “government.”