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Eagle367 said:
vivster said:

Corporations do not possess the kind of authority that is used to define authoritarianism.

US libertarians or the people who call themselves that are a different breed, it doesn't really matter what those authoritarians want to call themselves. I mean they're also calling themselves patriots and we know that isn't true.

Just like how US liberal democrats are barely centrists instead of the leftists they pretend to be or others call them.

I would say the workplace is a very important part of everyday life for many people so they do have the kind of authority on each of their microscales to be authoritarian. Hell they are authoritarian by virtue of their structure aka owner, board, manager, workers, etc. 

Again, not authoritarian by the political definition. This is about politics, not sociology or philosophy.

If you want to take it broader I could even say my hobbies are authoritarian because I would literally die from depression if I didn't have them, so they are commanding me to do them.



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