• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    I don’t really find that a meaningful distinction in the context of discussing whether far-right ideologies are capable of being anti-hierarchy.

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      2 months ago

      Governmental hierarchy vs private sector hierarchy is the distinction. The existence of hierarchy does not define authoritarianism in government. Do you consider a head of the household an authoritarian government?

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        Do you consider a head of the household an authoritarian government?

        I would consider traditional patriarchal ideas of the head of a household as hierarchical, and that there’s a significant body of work in anthropology that directly relates the outgrowth of complex and hierarchical societies from such family arrangements. So, in the broadest sense, yes. In the narrower sense of a competing polity with a monopoly on force compared to extant states, no, but that’s only relevant insofar as those states continue to exist.