There’s a not insignificant overlap in rhetoric between the “red fash” anarcho-libs and the ancaps who insist that Hitler and Mussolini were big government socialists. In my experience, “all governments are bad” is a thought-terminating cliche. A principled analysis of power has a means of distinguishing between justified and unjustified hierarchy and can therefore compare the severity of abuse when that power is misused. But that’s a lot of work and not always situationally appropriate to actually walk through the analysis, so ymmv
There’s a not insignificant overlap in rhetoric between the “red fash” anarcho-libs and the ancaps who insist that Hitler and Mussolini were big government socialists. In my experience, “all governments are bad” is a thought-terminating cliche. A principled analysis of power has a means of distinguishing between justified and unjustified hierarchy and can therefore compare the severity of abuse when that power is misused. But that’s a lot of work and not always situationally appropriate to actually walk through the analysis, so ymmv
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