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Anti-authoritarian "leftists" are liberals that recognise that liberalism is bad but have not fully committed to the idea of replacing it. They wear the aesthetics of leftism because it makes them feel like they're not bad human beings but because they have not fully committed to replacing it their instincts are still to support and reinforce the status quo.

They are liberals that feel guilty. It is necessary to challenge them for not fully committing to moving on from liberalism. They must not be allowed to feel absolved of guilt just by wearing leftism aesthetically, they must be pushed into remaining guilty in order to convert further and fully commit to the left.

Only by being challenged and made to see that they are still liberals will they make the effort to fully move on. They re-label themselves to remove that guilt and must not be allowed or else that will be the furthest they progress leftwards.

"Anti-authoritarian" but also conveniently never criticize authoritarianism done by liberals

"Anti authoritarian leftists"

Western chauvinists with

The trick about the word authoritarian is that while most people have a strong negative reaction to it, different groups have wildly divergent understandings of what the word means. This leads to confusion and hard feelings. Some people define "authoritarian" based on structural hierarchy, rather than exertion of control. Ask 10 people of different ideological persuasions to define the word and you will get 10 wildly different answers. And also many people define the word on a purely vibes basis, which is quite frustrating Personally I don't use the work much because I don't find it that useful.

Sorry pal, defending yourself from murder is authoritarian totalitarian political violence

All of our problems will be solved with another peaceful protest.

The video of the ICE raids in Chicago yesterday (or today I can't remember honestly) should immediately disabuse you of the notion that this strategy will ever bear meaningful fruit.

You see this a lot with the Russian SMO. Too many "leftists" are very comfortable with leaving their analysis at the door of "neither Washington nor Moscow" and leaving their positions eerily absent of any part of fascist Ukraine and instead pontificate about Putin's desire for a new Russian empire and how he is homophobic.

It is very difficult for them to see the true analysis of the conflict from a dialectic instead of weighing "good" and "bad" things on their personal ideological scales and adjusting their thoughts accordingly (never mind that the have their thumbs on the scales against Russia)

I don’t understand the contradiction.