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Confession: I only just realized over the past few years. I had always thought that authoritarians were a right phenomenon.
It depends how you see "left" and "right". I see the left as promoting equality, and generally freedom, and the right justifying or increasing inequality. An authoritarian system by definition gives far more power to some people than others, which is an idea of the right. However, systems of government in practice are generally not strictly left or right, and you get the likes of the Soviet Union which gave some degr…
I think this word should be banned from such comparisons. Equal outcome can equal opportunity and different takes on what matters. Right-wing libertarianism tends to be the most "pure technical freedom" for the individual but tends to lead to little practical freedom for those without significant capital.
You could rightfully argue that the far end of either in its pure form is the meaningful flavor of "freedom".
Authoritarianism is orthogonal to that, in either case.