It was to break up unions and assassinate labor leaders

  • JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    I love most of what gets posted here as a great reminder of the US‘s unofficial history. However I can’t help but wonder where the “real leftists” are who usually go off about how “authoritarian” isn’t a real word/was invented by the cia/is just propaganda.

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      21 days ago

      I get where you’re coming from.

      I will say, when I’ve issued that criticism. It was not so much the lack of a need for a word for something between totalitarianism and liberal democracies, but rather the lack of equitable use of any term in that space.