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"It isn't enough to contest the authoritarian idea that children should be seen and not heard," says MIT literary scholar Marah Gubar.
From there, Ghani's mind jumped to the Iron Emir, Abdur Rahman, Amanullah's grandfather, who imported the authoritarian idea of hierarchy from his years in exile in Russia.
Today, we need only look to the concentration camps in China where more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs are being subjected to mental and physical torture and "re-education". As authoritarian nations and the authoritarian idea gain strength, there will be fewer and fewer barriers to what illiberal governments can do to their people.
This would dovetail with a more substantive theory about Trump's supporters -- that they're more receptive to authoritarian ideas, like an intolerance for ambiguity.
Meanwhile, Belarus serves as a sort of laboratory for authoritarian ideas, some of which have been imported from Minsk to Moscow.Wait for the bad newsThe good news is that, young (51) as he is, and theoretically entitled though he is to remain president indefinitely, Mr Lukashenka's regime is unsustainable.
Stevenson had, he affably confessed, "very little experience as a wife or mother"; but he believed that the housewife's task was a worthy one, since "we will defeat totalitarian, authoritarian ideas only by better ideas".
Critics and bloggers have trounced the document as a self-serving, potentially dangerous mishmash of Czarist and Soviet authoritarian ideas.
He showed instead the continuity of their authoritarian ideas and their antisemitism from the 1920s onwards, and how, in a lengthy process, growing disillusionment had gradually led a courageous minority to try to overthrow the regime.
In doing so he considers not just the 'major' fascist movements and regimes of Italy and Germany but the entire range of fascist and authoritarian ideas, movements and regimes present in the Europe of 1919-1945.
Democratic norms and institutions are openly disdained; illiberal and authoritarian ideas from the alt-right and far left are moving from the fringe; and everywhere, truth and civility are squeezed out amid rancor and conspiracism.
In my part of the world, egalitarian and authoritarian ideas, most of the time dominant, live alongside more liberal notions.
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