/lit/ - Literature

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>Do /pol/tards have an authoritarian personality? I mean, 4chan is a pretty anarchic website yet /pol/lacks are oddly conservative and authoritarian ... I mean, aren't the libtards everything /pol/ should like? They are authoritarian, controlling, they police the truth and they support autocratic politicians like Biden.
Adorno was fascinated by the rebellious tendencies of so-called "pseudoconservatives" who he thought were particularly common on the American right. He saw an authentic conservative as one who identifies with the power and structures of authority and defends them accordingly, while the pseudoconservative suffers from a failed identification with those structures and would destroy them in order to save them. If you look at it from a somewhat Marxist POV, then the U.S. for example would probably look like a fundamentally unfree bourgeois dictatorship that's run by corporate executives (or rather, "freedom" is defined as their freedom), and representative democracy functions as a stabilizing institution, and then the Trump movement is rebelling against that, but with an ideology that the "true" leadership of America has been usurped, and the solution is in appointing a CEO to run America like a business... even though it already is. But that removes the buffers and destabilizes the country, which they're trying to "save."

Or in Germany, putting the military in charge, even though the Prussian officer corps was already heavily involved in politics, or traditionally, "doing politics" in Germany was essentially "being in the military" and they were one and the same. Fascism back then contained a rebellion against bourgeois parliamentarism where politicians talk everything to death when we need men of action!

I think he also identified this with authoritarian parenting and an inability to criticize the father. I don't know if I believe that part and I don't know enough about Freudian stuff like that. But it's interesting and helped me think about certain currents on the right in a different way, and it makes sense. The right can be rebellious, noisy, anarchic and destructive. Fascists can be into spectacle and riots and stuff like that:
https://youtu.be/G7EtOYAIXto