• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I count authoritarian mostly as little to no way for the citizens to effect policy changes. Plus their very heavy handed on controlling their population.

    Functional liberal democracies are pretty far from that, since people have feedback, and because of that, the population isn't ruthlessly controlled.

    • Clever_Clover [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      so, say, a place like Cuba where citizens do effect policy changes (like when they recently voted on the new constitution that now enshrines lgbtq rights) are not authoritarian, right?

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      But most people have no effect on policy and almost all of society, including every necessary resource, is monopolized by the owning class enforcing its will through state violence and deprivation