The descriptor "authoritarian" is used to mean "using state power unilaterally against your opponents". But I think it doesn't matter quite so much as this question: "Do you concentrate power, or do you distribute power?" If you concentrate power, you are perpetuating a class division. But if you distribute power, you are tearing it down.
Informal hierarchies are a very real thing. They are what formal hierarchies evolve from. Many anarchists deny or downplay the prevalence of informal hierarchies, and often even bolster them. So you can sometimes have "libertarian" people that hoard power, and "authoritarian" people that disperse it. It doesn't have a certain correlation with that political axis.
Autonomous communist perspective on this:
The descriptor "authoritarian" is used to mean "using state power unilaterally against your opponents". But I think it doesn't matter quite so much as this question: "Do you concentrate power, or do you distribute power?" If you concentrate power, you are perpetuating a class division. But if you distribute power, you are tearing it down.
Informal hierarchies are a very real thing. They are what formal hierarchies evolve from. Many anarchists deny or downplay the prevalence of informal hierarchies, and often even bolster them. So you can sometimes have "libertarian" people that hoard power, and "authoritarian" people that disperse it. It doesn't have a certain correlation with that political axis.
Paging OP, @Balerion on this.
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