• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Authoritarianism: The degree to which a power structure monopolizes control over the total social implementation of some power.
    Domination: The degree to which some power structure utilizes coercion, violence, and/or deception to achieve its ends.

    What existing collective doesn’t fit this definition? Because by this definition, the anarchist controlled areas of republican spain then, were deeply authoritarian.

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      33 minutes ago

      In what way did republican spain monopolize power? Monopoly means that only a small amount of agents get access to it.

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        Monopolize does not mean that the group is small, but that the access is exclusive. The group that monopolizes can be large, and extremely exclusionary towards other groups. Anarchists in Spain monopolized authority, ran labor camps, and built up hierarchical structures over time to suit the realities of the Spanish Civil War.