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Historically, far left governments have killed as many people as far right ones, despite their proclaimed love of human rights. Pretty much any closed, ironclad

Historically, far left governments have killed as many people as far right ones, despite their proclaimed love of human rights. Pretty much any closed, ironclad ideology seems to be capable of ending in mass murder.

TaylorAlexander 6y ago
Leftist ideology is not inherently authoritarian, and many authoritarian leftist regimes imprisoned or executed the anti authoritarian lefists in their midst. I am an anti-authoritatian, but there have always been anti-authoritarian leftists. Even Karl Marx had a well known contemporary critic with Peter Kropotkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin So you've made a mistake associating leftist ideology with authoritarianism. There is both authoritarian leftist ideology and non-authoritarian leftist ideology. And then there's Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam. Their country was occupied by the French and later invaded by and viciously attacked by the United States. So they were communist and perhaps emphasized violent revolution, but how else could you gain your freedom from an occupying army? But for a modern, United States-centric anti-authoritarian anarchist communist ideology, look up Communalism by Murray Bookchin. Bookchin was critical of Bernie Sanders in vermont as being too centrist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=murray+bookchin https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=murray+bookchin
- historicalweave 6y ago
  Right-wing ideology isn't inherently authoritarian either. In fact much of right-wing ideology favors federalism and other forms of decentralization.
dang 6y ago
Please do not take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

TaylorAlexander 6y ago

Leftist ideology is not inherently authoritarian, and many authoritarian leftist regimes imprisoned or executed the anti authoritarian lefists in their midst. I am an anti-authoritatian, but there have always been anti-authoritarian leftists. Even Karl Marx had a well known contemporary critic with Peter Kropotkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin So you've made a mistake associating leftist ideology with authoritarianism. There is both authoritarian leftist ideology and non-authoritarian leftist ideology. And then there's Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam. Their country was occupied by the French and later invaded by and viciously attacked by the United States. So they were communist and perhaps emphasized violent revolution, but how else could you gain your freedom from an occupying army? But for a modern, United States-centric anti-authoritarian anarchist communist ideology, look up Communalism by Murray Bookchin. Bookchin was critical of Bernie Sanders in vermont as being too centrist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=murray+bookchin https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=murray+bookchin

historicalweave 6y ago
Right-wing ideology isn't inherently authoritarian either. In fact much of right-wing ideology favors federalism and other forms of decentralization.

dang 6y ago

Please do not take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html