What is left and right authoritarian?
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Altemeyer’s personal distinction is that a right-wing authoritarian submits to the established authorities in society whereas left-wing authoritarians submit to authorities who want to overthrow the establishment.
In a democracy, a legislature is intended to represent the diversity of interests among citizens, whereas authoritarians use legislatures to signal their own restraint towards other elites as well as to monitor other elites who pose a challenge to the regime.
What is the difference between left and right libertarianism?
Generally, in practice, left libertarians tend to believe that non-state actors and processes tend to infringe on liberty and create coercive conditions, while right libertarians tend to focus on the state as an initiator of coercion and violator of liberty.
What are some examples of libertarianism in social issues?
Here is an example in social issues: A right wing libertarian (like Ron Paul) may oppose the Civil Rights Act for infringing on freedom of association and intruding on states’ rights, but a left libertarian would almost always support it for promoting racial equality and greater personal freedom for minorities.
Left wing authoritarianism was a derivative of Stalins notion of “socialism in one country”— that it was possible to create a socialist state in one nation. Marx and many other socialists and communists explicitly stated that such a thing wasn’t not the way to go, however, Stalin built a dictatorship on the premise.
Economic policy. That’s what left and right mean. It means what percentage of the economy is publicly controlled by a governing body of the people as opposed to privately controlled or ‘publicly’ controlled by a monarch or dictator which is a government of power, not representation. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism.