• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      Each one is the full 4 quadrant compass as seen by each of the quadrants.

      Top-left is authleft perceiving all politics as the imposition of the power of one class over another (making libleft and libright meaningless terms)

      Top-right is authright perceiving all politics as relating back to national identity (making libleft and libright meaningless terms)

      Bottom-left is libleft perceiving no difference between domination by state or private institutions (making the left/right distinction in the authoritarian/libertarianism axis meaningless)

      Bottom-right is libright perceiving libertarianism as a right-wing phenomenon (making libleft nonexistent).

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        Ok. Interesting. I’ve always thought of myself as lib-left… but I disagree with the analysis from lib-left here, so maybe I’m auth left…

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      Probably “Nothing is freedom unless I can buy it, own it, and create artificial scarcity over it”.

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    I’m not following why the given Auth-right position would mean that the libertarian side of the compass does not exist. I feel like what they actually would say is something like “Doesn’t exist because some people just can’t be trusted to ever become good people.”

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      Many authoritarian types assert that everyone is as authoritarian as them, just with different social and political values which modify how that imposition of authority presents itself.