I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.

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    19 hours ago

    Dude are you a bot? For the 500th time I NEVER SAID YOU HAVE LESS FREEDOM IN A SOCIALIST SOCIETY

    That is a straw man you have made up and keep arguing against

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      19 hours ago

      You’ve said “authoritarianism” is about “restricting individual freedoms,” and categorized me and existing socialist states as “authoritarian.” These are contradictions, though, they both cannot be true.

      I understand that you are generally categorizing socialist society as something on the left, and saying you can have a bigger or smaller state, etc. I am telling you that this isn’t how society works in real life. The state and the mode of production are interconnected, and reinforce each other. They aren’t sliders you select in a lab, you can’t just have a bigger or smaller state like that.

      I’m not a bot, no. You haven’t responded to me saying class analysis is critical, you’ve brushed it aside entirely and continued to re-affirm the original statement.

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        19 hours ago

        I literally never did and I am done reading your page long responses that involve you not reading anything I wrote, making up an argument and then responding to that I have had more productive conversations with a homeless man on the bus

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          19 hours ago

          It’s a spectrum and a person who supports the government having more control of their citizens is considering authoritarian. A person who wants to limit government control over their citizens is more libertarian.

          These are your words. I do read what you write, as much as you insist that I’m not. I agree that this conversation isn’t very productive, but I think it’s more due to your refusal to actually engage with what I’ve been saying and instead just re-affirm the useless political compass as though it actually means anything.

          Really don’t like the way you casually look down on the homeless, too.