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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that authoritarian is a basically meaningless term when applied to a states.

All states are in the business of using lethal violence, or the threat of it at least, to enforce their rule within their borders.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats why i am an anarchist......

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay so if being "authoritarian" is bad and means you shouldn't be supported, and Sankara ran a state, making him authoritarian, by a definition you're now agreeing with (again, anyone who runs a state) why are you pretending you don't think he's an authoritarian and trying to use him as a cudgel against people who actually share an ideology with him?