. Is it authoritarian to follow the commands of your captain when you are in battle?
If your whole life is a war, and you’re living in military state, then sorry, but you’re already in a way worst scenario than you think. Look at weird paramilitary groups that are using kids as a army, brainwashing is strong and they are saying what you said.
This is the problem with authoritarian stare. It steals your humanity and freedom, it thinks for you, and it control’s you. It doesn’t matter if you’re slave of rulling class in capitalist stare or slave of rulling class in whatever you’re referring to. It’s the same state but with different flags and slogans.
It’s not the same as being in the trenches under fire, but the class war is waged with violence and has casualties and deaths, front lines and such. Seeing it as a war isn’t a choice to live in a military state, you feel it when you are working class trying to live and the rich are doing their best to let you die. The class war does steal your humanity and control you, taking a militant stance against it is meeting the opposition as they are. They use militarized police and all the means of psychological war to fight against the poor.
I’m not saying it’s necessary to subsume your individuality to the will of your leaders and forget autonomy or follow anything with blind obedience, just that what some call authoritarian I have come to see as potentially necessary steps to take when fighting such a ruthless enemy.
If your whole life is a war, and you’re living in military state, then sorry, but you’re already in a way worst scenario than you think. Look at weird paramilitary groups that are using kids as a army, brainwashing is strong and they are saying what you said.
This is the problem with authoritarian stare. It steals your humanity and freedom, it thinks for you, and it control’s you. It doesn’t matter if you’re slave of rulling class in capitalist stare or slave of rulling class in whatever you’re referring to. It’s the same state but with different flags and slogans.
It’s not the same as being in the trenches under fire, but the class war is waged with violence and has casualties and deaths, front lines and such. Seeing it as a war isn’t a choice to live in a military state, you feel it when you are working class trying to live and the rich are doing their best to let you die. The class war does steal your humanity and control you, taking a militant stance against it is meeting the opposition as they are. They use militarized police and all the means of psychological war to fight against the poor.
I’m not saying it’s necessary to subsume your individuality to the will of your leaders and forget autonomy or follow anything with blind obedience, just that what some call authoritarian I have come to see as potentially necessary steps to take when fighting such a ruthless enemy.