#Authoritarianism

Anarchy is not chaos.Anarchy is self-governance absent oppressive hierarchies.Anarchy is self-governance based on cooperation rather than coercion.Now ask yourself who is invested in you thinking the above is chaotic? Anarchy

The kind of authoritarianism Trump wants simply isn’t possible in America.Without Congress, he’s weak. Also, our federalist system grants states great power. Trump would have to morph every Governor into

"Based on surveys from the United States, the authors found that white people who did not want to have immigrants or people of different races living next door to them

Experts who warned of three great crises of our time -- climate change, covid-19, and authoritarianism -- emphasized that these crises must be tackled with urgency. We never had time.Yet

New study about country founded on ideas of democracy and the practice of slavery: "When intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy."https://www.nbcnews.com/t

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Anti-authoritarianism is the new non-violence.In Wretched of the Earth, Fanon talks about how at the critical moment, when colonized peoples awaken to the situation and engage in decolonization, the colonialist

1. I want to talk about this @DouthatNYT column, and why I think it's wrong — mainly, that it misunderstands what "authoritarianism" ishttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/opinion/sunday/trump-election-authoritarianism.html 2.

On the one hand, Trump denial of the coronavirus has killed tens of thousands of Americans and crashed the economy; he is undermining the armed forces, alienating allies and helping

I have learned to cast basically everything conservatives do in the light of authoritarianism. Authority is their principal virtue and everything they do is to gain or maintain it. Their

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My theory about the lady who nearly killed her dog while calling the cops on a reasonable birder in the park is that racists may hate black civility more than

Beau of The Fifth Column

Attention all adversarial journalists: Yes, there's validity in being contrarian to the main narratives. It helps stop authoritarians. However, if you use the terms "establishment", "the powers that be", "the

"When would you say you first sat up and felt that Trump represented a real...authoritarian threat?""Immediately. Every country that becomes a dictatorship started with a chorus of people saying, "It

Too much people confuse Libertarian and Capitalism. Those two are on a different dimensions. Simplified, political ideologies are just like the chart below[Possibly a Thread] Libertarian is the opposite of

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When Haitian slaves revolted and overthrew their French colonizers, it was an authoritarian act. When the FLN blew up cafes, distributing pamphlets declaring “colonialism only loosens its hold when the

The #Enlightenment is dead.#Elitists have mobilized the #mob to reestablish the #oligarchy and return the world to tyranny and #authoritarianism.This isn’t #war on #systemicracism. It’s a war on the middle

We have to restart our economy now and we have to dramatically cut immigration and also we have to aggressively sanction our largest trade partner all at the same time