Title: What does it mean to be a left-wing authoritarian? - Quora
Headings: What does it mean to be a left-wing authoritarian?
What does it mean to be a left-wing authoritarian?
leftwing is "big guberment"

Content: Without a doubt, the most troubling of the (many) mistaken notions expressed by commenters is the idea that left-wing ideologies or politics is synonymous with authoritarianism or the desire for governments with
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Reading through the previous answers I have to say that no matter how many times I’m confronted with the breathtaking level of ignorance still on display with regard to what is meant by the descriptors “left-” and “right-”wing, I’m still shocked by the damage that 40+ years of USG initiated and supported Cold War propaganda can do to political discourse of an entire nation’s population. Without a doubt, the most troubling of the (many) mistaken notions expressed by commenters is the idea that left-wing ideologies or politics is synonymous with authoritarianism or the desire for governments with dictatorial power. Nothing could be further from the truth considering what ‘left-wing’ can be most easily conflated with — equality! ( or egalitarianism). How such a grossly unfair comparison as Left=Tyranny became almost “common knowledge” to so many Americans is easily understood when we look at the unique dilemma business and military leaders found themselves in at the close of WWll. WWll ended with 2 remaining powers as the victors — The USA and the USSR. It had long been customary for nations to disband their armies once hostilities had ceased on the notions that 1. it is very expensive to maintain standing armies during peacetime and as such, the taxpayers (particularly of democratic nations) won’t stand for it, and 2. in the past there was usually plenty of warning that war was impending (eg. hostile troop movements by a neighboring state) thereby giving governments time to re-establish a defensive capability.