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Yes, instead of Wikipedia let's just use this random wiki that is heavily biased toward those authoritarian states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
Ugh horrible argument. No, you have to contend with the source I provided, not skip it and provide a different source, especially when the prolewiki page is a challenge to the Wikipedia page, and so citing the latter is like citing a work against which a polemic is directed at the polemic as an "alternative."
Apparently Wikipedia is "not biased", they just forbid certain sources, include U.S. government aligned sources by and large (this article you've cited sources Radio Free Europe, a CIA propaganda outlet; the New York Times summaries of situations in countries the U.S. is opposed to (this is done 10x), despite the source being a rubber stamp for the U.S. government; a Washington Post opinion article which completely obfuscates the nature of the press as a tool of class rule), and so on. Sorry, Wikipedia is biased.
Your source is a joke. It doesn't even define the word, it just shit talks liberals.
It does give a definition: that there is none (lack of a definition is a definition). This is pretty clear if you read the whole page. Authoritarianism is just trying to distance itself from authority because all states wield authority in various ways, and so a word was created to separate the two and criticize the socialist bloc that also wielded authority, like the west did, but their authority was bad you see, not like ours which is good.
But why am I saying this; you didn't read the page, you're not gonna read this either.
In fact nobody has ever really been able to articulate to me why authoritarianism is bad beyond "I want my freedom". It just inherently is undesirable, don't ask too many questions, just accept it.