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MLs are not “simply authoritarian”. Authoritarianism is the way every nation state on earth is organized. The thing is though, that Marxist Leninists set up literal police states which crush, through repression and punishment, all other currents of socialism, art movements, open conversations and inquiries, freely shared dissident opinions, any form of self organization or autonomy, etc. Police states are not “just authoritarian” to the same degree as say Canada’s internalized settler authoritarianism bolstered by the long arm of the law, or Bolsonaro’s Brazil.