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Jumpin said:

Another problem with this grid is that authoritarian and libertarian are both loaded terms and not opposites of one another.

Many people take "libertarian" to mean unfettered laissez-faire/neoliberal capitalist economics - which is a fundamentally authoritarian so long as people within those structures depend on wages and insurance plans for survival and are beholden to contracts; a CEO without red tape is therefore no different from a mini-dictator. Anti-authoritarian measures to regulate the power of corporations are also anti-libertarian. Laws which prevent corporate monopolization are also anti-authoritarian and anti-Libertarian.

The opposite of authoritarianism is not libertarianism, it's anarchism.

I think you completely misunderstood authoritarianism. It says right in the name that it's about authority. Authority comes through a governing body and laws. Corporations are not authorities. However libertarianism can lead to authoritarianism when corporations become powerful enough to replace or usurp any other authority. We're not at that dystopian point yet even though it might feel that way sometimes.



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