All definitions of “AutHoRItaRiaNisM” that .world, piefed, or other right-wing lemmy instances subscribe to is anything that modern centrist liberals don’t like or involve “political violence”. Lincoln and John Brown would be “Violent Authoritarians” according to modern liberals if they existed today.

It goes back to the definition of a liberal: A liberal is anyone that is anti-war, except for all the current wars and is in favor of liberation struggles, except for any that are still ongoing.

I thought you were anti-tankie? He should have just kept voting for moderate Republicans.

The difference between communism and anarchism isn’t the aims, but whether the state could immediately be abolished or that there must be a transitional period.

Communism by any other name would smell as sweet