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MoscowBernd2026-07-24 16:07:16 · 2wNo. 363579reply
why are some countries authoritarian and some arent
 
I understand this is mostly about regime survival but still
CanadaBernd2026-07-24 16:08:52 · 2wNo. 363581reply
Ask putin
The NetherlandsBernd2026-07-24 16:24:14 · 2wNo. 363583reply
A act of a nation's survival perhaps?
The NetherlandsBernd2026-07-24 16:24:37 · 2wNo. 363584reply
Electing Psychos in office?
HungaryBernd2026-07-24 16:58:53 · 2wNo. 363588reply
Historical development.
United StatesBernd2026-07-24 17:28:46 · 2wNo. 363589reply
It's a update because of the times have changed
United KingdomBernd2026-07-24 18:17:19 · 2wNo. 363590reply
Ifykyk
GermanyBernd2026-07-24 18:52:04 · 2wNo. 363591reply
Name me a non authoritarian country.
United StatesBernd2026-07-24 20:47:35 · 2wNo. 363597reply
Every nation is Authoritarian, Totalitarian.
The NetherlandsBernd2026-07-24 21:11:51 · 2wNo. 363600reply
This. If several generations in a row knew only authoritarian power it's very hard to make a different system and keep it running, and vice versa.
United StatesBernd2026-07-24 22:29:48 · 2wNo. 363604reply
Plus certain people want to keep it that way
United StatesBernd2026-07-25 01:29:05 · 2wNo. 363607reply
Authoritarians gravitate towards leadership positions.
 
Its why in the USA Homeowners Associations are full of people who are borderline insane, creepy "Karens" and elderly people who wield what little power they are granted like a Vorpal Sword against the people that entrusted them to lead.
Also, governments seek to expand even if it isn't needed. Its why taxes always go up, its nearly impossible to eliminate a government agency and the wealthy tend to live within 75 miles of the government seat of power in any country.
HungaryBernd2026-07-25 13:17:25 · 2wNo. 363613reply
Something I remembered. The marxist racism.
I found this in an article by Engels, The magyar struggle, written in 1849, for the Hungarian Revolution.
Here he claims that there are inherently revolutionary and counter-revolutionary ethnicities. He explains it that people fragments always become counter-revolutionary, etc.
 
Here's the article. Back in the day I read it on -redacted- but now the article is de-linked for some reason, see picrel. So the text can be found here, just search "Scot" and the part is about around that, starts couple of paragraphs above.
-redacted-
HungaryBernd2026-07-25 13:18:19 · 2wNo. 363614reply
Define your version of "authoritarian".
CanadaBernd2026-07-25 18:02:56 · 2wNo. 363627reply
It's the future of all so called civilizations
United StatesBernd2026-07-25 18:05:58 · 2wNo. 363629reply
Because niggers needa die
GermanyBernd2026-07-25 22:27:12 · 2wNo. 363637reply
That's my point.
It's a buzzword that carries an implicit judgment of the subject.
Dictatorship/democracy.
Occupation/liberation.
Revolution/coup.
You name it.
GermanyBernd2026-07-25 22:38:44 · 2wNo. 363638reply
>During the 1848 revolutions, Friedrich Engels designated several Slavic and non-German groups in the Habsburg Empire as "counter-revolutionary". In his writings for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, he categorized the Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, Serbs, Slovenes, and Ukrainians (Ruthenians) as "non-historic" peoples. He believed they inherently opposed progressive bourgeois revolutions and would inevitably perish in future historical developments.
 
P.S. lol notice how AI called Ruthenians - Ukrainians.
 
>Engels contrasted these groups with "historic" nations like the Germans, Poles, and Magyars, which he viewed as motors of historical progress. Because many of these smaller Slavic groups opposed the Hungarian and German nationalist movements and allied with the Habsburg monarchy to preserve their own autonomy, Engels viewed them as tools of absolutist counter-revolution.For a deeper dive into these specific 1848-1849 essays, you can read Engels's theoretical framework in texts like "The Magyar Struggle" and "Democratic Pan-Slavism" available via the Marxists Internet Archive.
 
So I think he didn't meant ethnicities but nations right? So not exactly racist.
And he was kinda right until yugo and ussr got cooked.
United KingdomBernd2026-07-26 02:19:58 · 2wNo. 363640reply
So many dumb comments from right wing Americans. Hello from the former East Germany. There is no comparison between the democratic socialists in the US and the regime of the former East Germany. It was the most authoritarian Stalinist dictatorship outside of Albania - the post-Stalin Soviets had to tell them to calm TF down multiple times because they were too harsh. Central planning, state ownership, collectivization... that's about all that it did that was classically communist. It was a brutal dictatorship, and like today's North Korea, had little to do with actual communism. Fascists with a red bandana for good show.
HungaryBernd2026-07-26 06:53:38 · 2wNo. 363661reply
>AI called Ruthenians - Ukrainians.
You stuffed it into an LLM for summary?
>So I think he didn't meant ethnicities but nations right? So not exactly racist.
Define your version of racism.
 
Also should note Engels mentions the Scots and Basques as counter-revolutoinary. So he goes beyond the scope of the Austrian Empire when defining these.
GermanyBernd2026-07-26 22:43:19 · 2wNo. 363735reply
>You stuffed it into an LLM for summary?
Just google'd it, thats google search ai.
 
>You stuffed it into an LLM for summary?
Well when you have a prejudice against certain race/ethnicity?
 
I think what Engels meant was addressed to a nation as a political/social/cultural construct not individual people. Dunno maybe that is still qualifies as racist.
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