Cyran said:
These are actually acts of anarchists, and new jersey correctly classify them as anarchists Extremists. Anarchists want a society without a hierarchy while Authoritarianism advocate for a strong hierarchy society. Both are completely wrong I would say and when they advocates there views with violence they should be prosecuted and thrown in jail but it would be incorrect to claim violence acts by anarchists are acts of authoritarianism. |
Authoritarianism is the initiation of force. That's all it is. When you commit an act of violence onto another individual in a non-defensive way, you are attempting to be the dominate force over that individual. Even if you're someone who claims not to believe in a society based on hierarchy, you are practicing hierarchy when you do that. So when Antifa attacks people in a non-defensive manner, smashes someone's windows or vandalizes their car, they do it to put fear into the people they're going after. Being fearful of Antifa places that person or persons in a position of weakness whereas Antifa gains a position of dominance as we have seen in places like Portland. So yeah, the people who claim to be Antifa and do these awful things are authoritarians wether they want to accept that or not.
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