• TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I think that authoritarian is a basically meaningless term when applied to a states.

    All states are in the business of using lethal violence, or the threat of it at least, to enforce their rule within their borders.

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        1 year ago

        Okay so if being “authoritarian” is bad and means you shouldn’t be supported, and Sankara ran a state, making him authoritarian, by a definition you’re now agreeing with (again, anyone who runs a state) why are you pretending you don’t think he’s an authoritarian and trying to use him as a cudgel against people who actually share an ideology with him?