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Leftist ideology is not inherently authoritarian, and many authoritarian leftist regimes imprisoned or executed the anti authoritarian lefists in their midst. I
by 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 agoRight-wing ideology isn't inherently authoritarian either. In fact much of right-wing ideology favors federalism and other forms of decentralization.