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    Look up the definition of authoritarianism. Bombing other countries is not the defining feature of an authoritarian government.

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        That’s cool and all but still irrelevant to the original point. You can be authoritarian to your own citizens domestically without invading other nations.

        The US is both imperialist and authoritarian.

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      Terms like Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism were defined or entrenched by a lot of western supremacist authors, who needed to twist terminology in such a way that excluded the US (capitalism’s worldwide enforcer and the cause of so much death and destruction) from any wrongdoing, while demonizing the colonial world who fought back against the US for their own sovereignty as “authoritarian”.

      I highly suggest reading Losurdo’s - Western Marxism, for an in-depth analysis of some of these white supremacist authors, and how they demonize the anti-colonial struggle.