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No, it's just a preference for a different authority than the status quo government.

Bolsheviks in Czarist Russia weren't anti-authoritarians, they were just preferred a different authority than was established.



Isn’t this the case of any system then? If you prefer your own authority, does that make you an authoritarian?


> Isn’t this the case of any system then?

No, libertarianism/minarchism/anarchism are real belief systems.

> If you prefer your own authority, does that make you an authoritarian?

If you prefer your authority be imposed on others, yes; dictators are very much authoritarians.




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