Authoritarianism

"This article is talking about Authoritarianism itself. For categories, see: AuthUnity,  AuthLeft and  AuthRight"

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong (usually central) power that demands obedience to authority and limited political and civil freedoms. While a multitude of different typologies has been developed by political scientists to classify authoritarian states, qualities commonly associated with authoritarian regimes include the absence of free and competitive democratic elections and one-party state, as well as censorship, and minimal power restrictions.

History
Authoritarianism arose during the transition from Tribes to cities. The first authoritarians were Monarchs, who had gained power through dynasties. Later in Greece, Democracy arose, which quickly became authoritarian. This stayed relatively the same until Enlightenment, which resulted in  numerous  rebellions against authority. These new positions quickly  became authoritarian, thus continuing the cycle.

Leaders and whose regimes have commonly been regarded as being Authoritarian include Saddam Hussein in  Iraq,  Francisco Franco in  Spain,  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar in  Portugal,  Alfredo Stroessner in  Paraguay,  Augusto Pinochet in  Chile,  Ruhollah Khomeini in  Iran,  Fidel Castro in  Cuba,  Emperor Hirohito in  Japan,   Saudi Arabia,  Muammar Gaddafi in  Libya,  Vladimir Putin in  Russia,  Alexandr Lukashenko in  Belarus, etc.

Other famous examples include Juan Peron in  Argentina,  Maximilien Robespierre in  France, and more recently,  Hamas and  Fatah in  Palestine.

Personality and Behavior
Auth is very demanding and angry, but will become enraged if you mention this. He also hates it if you call him totalitarian.

Stylistic Notes
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How to Draw
Auth flag.svg Authoritarianism's design is based on the 8values Security icon. And you're done!
 * 1) Draw a ball
 * 2) Color it a slightly faded navy blue (#3F51B5)
 * 3) Draw a black or very dark grey gavel (can be as detailed or simplistic as you want)
 * 4) Draw eyes

Friends

 * [[File: Abmon.png]] Absolute Monarchism & [[File: Authdem.png]] Authoritarian Democracy - Unjust and just authority are both great.
 * [[File: ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - This "Transitionary State" bullshit is great.
 * [[File: Pinochet-hat.png]] Pinochetism - Throwing dissidents out of helicopters? BASED!
 * [[File: Oligarchy.png]] Oligarchy - From the shadows, my friend.
 * [[File: Strato.png]] Stratocracy - What better way to achieve authority?
 * [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy - You're too narcissistic but I like the way you work.
 * [[File:Tucn-EcoAuth.png]] Eco-Authoritarianism - The correct way to do environmentalism.
 * [[File:Socauth.png]] Social Authoritarianism - The correct way to do welfare.
 * [[File:Baath.png]] Ba'athism - Getting the authoritarian part right, but in overt denial about it.
 * [[File:AuthSoc.png]] Authoritarian Socialism - Based socialism.
 * [[File:Authcap.png]] Authoritarian Capitalism - Based capitalism.
 * [[File:dengf.png]] Dengism - The social credit system is based.
 * [[File:PolState.png]] Police Statism - Respecting the authority.
 * [[File:Krit.png]] Kritarchy - Maintaining law and order.

Frenemies

 * [[File: Totalitarian.png]] Totalitarianism - Son, that's a bit too far.
 * [[File: Ingsocf.png]] Ingsoc - Grandson, that's really too far. Literally 1984!
 * [[File: Pron.png]] Peronism - Sure you say you're not a dictator but I don't buy it.
 * [[File:Monkeyzz-Enlightenment.png]] Enlightenment [[File: Enlightnenment.png]] - Could have ended me, but ended up falling victim to the cycle.
 * [[File: Tribal.png]] Tribalism - The future is now, old man.

Enemies

 * [[File: Dem.png]] Democracy - Moron. We don't need ya dirty "liberty"...
 * [[File: Kak.png]] Kakistocracy - This is where democracy leads, people. [[File:Polpot.png]] Oh wait-
 * [[File: Awaj.png]] Anarchism - Oh, fuck off.
 * [[File: Thar.png]] Anti-Authoritarianism - Total asshat.
 * [[File: Libertarian.png]] Libertarianism - I tread where I please.
 * [[File:Illeg.png]] Illegalism - Don't you DARE attempt to break the laws. Jail time for you!
 * [[File:Ochlo.png]] Ochlocracy - [Comment Removed by Moderator, Muted for 24 hours.]
 * [[File:Insarch.png]] Insurrectionary Anarchism - [Comment Removed by Moderator, Banned for 72 hours.]

Wikipedia

 * Authoritarianism
 * Statism
 * Bureaucracy

Authoritarian Leaders
This list is for leaders who were merely authoritarian. Totalitarian leaders have their own page.
 * [[File:Cball-Austria.png]] Kurt von Schuschnigg (Federal State of Austria) [[File:AusFash.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-France.png]]Philippe Petáin (Vichy France) [[File:French Fascism.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Manchukuo.png]] [[File:Cball-Qing.png]] Aisin-Gioro Puyi (Qing China/Manchukuo) [[File:Concordia Association.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Hungary.png]] Miklós Horthy (Kingdom of Hungary) [[File:Horthy.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Slovakia.png]] Jozef Tiso (First Slovak State) [[File:Cfash.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Greece.png]] Ioannis Metaxas (Greece) [[File:Metaxi.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Greece.png]] Georgios Papadopoulos (Greece) [[File:Metaxi.png]]
 * [[File:Franco.png]] Francisco Franco (Spanish State) [[File:Franco-alt.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (Portugal) [[File:Salazar.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Nikita Khrushchev (USSR) [[File:Khrusch.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Leonid Brezhnev (USSR)
 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Boris Yeltsin (Russia) [[File:Yeltsin.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Vladimir Putin (Russia) [[File:Putin.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Belarus.png]] Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus) [[File:Lukash.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-EastGermany.png]] Erich Honecker (GDR) [[File:Honecker.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Gustav Husak (Czechoslovakia) [[File:Husak.png]]
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey) [[File:Erdoğanism.png]]
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Turkey) [[File:Ataturk.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Chiang Kai-shek (ROC) [[File:ChiangKaiShek.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Dai Li (ROC) [[File:China-blueshirt.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Deng Xiaoping (PRC) [[File:Dengf.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Li Peng (PRC)
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Jiang Zemin (PRC) [[File:Jiang_Tze-min.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Xi Jinping (PRC) [[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] Syngman Rhee (ROK) [[File:SyngmanRhee.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] Park Chung-hee (ROK) [[File:ParkChungHee.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] Chun Doo-hwan (ROK) [[File:DemocraticJusticeParty.png]]
 * [[File:Hochi.png]] Ho Chi Minh (North Vietnam) [[File:Hochi.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-SouthVietnam.png]] Ngô Đình Diệm (South Vietnam)
 * [[File:Cball-SouthVietnam.png]] Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (South Vietnam)
 * [[File:Cball-Singapore.png]] Lee Kuan-Yew (Singapore) [[File:PAP(Singapore).png]]
 * [[File:Tito.png]] Josip Broz Tito (SFR Yugoslavia)
 * [[File:Tito.png]] Slobodan Milošević (FR Yugoslavia) [[File:Milosevic.png]]
 * [[File:Tito.png]] Ratko Mladić (Republika Srpska)
 * [[File:Tito.png]] Radovan Karadžić (Republika Srpska) [[File:Karadzic.png]]
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Fulgencio Batista (Cuba) [[File:Batista.png]]
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Fidel Castro (Cuba) [[File:Castro-PCC.png]]
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (Mexico)
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Luis Echeverría (Mexico)
 * [[File:Argentina.png]] Juan Perón (Argentina) [[File:Pron.png]]
 * [[File:Argentina.png]] Jorge Videla (Argentina) [[File:Videla.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Chile.png]] Marmaduke Grove (Chile) [[File:Soc.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Chile.png]] Augusto Pinochet (Chile) [[File:Pinochet-hat.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Paraguay.png]] Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay) [[File:ColoradoParty-Stroessner.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Bolivia.png]] Hugo Banzer (Bolivia) [[File:NDA-Banzer.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Nicaragua.png]] Anastasio Somoza Debayle (Nicaragua) [[File:PLN.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Nicaragua.png]] Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua)
 * [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Alberto Fujimori (Peru) [[File:Fujimori.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
 * [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Emílio Garrastazu Médici (Brazil) [[File:ARENA-Brazil.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Ernesto Geisel (Brazil) [[File:ARENA-Brazil.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil) [[File:Bolsonarism - alt.png]]
 * [[File:Chavismo.png]] Nicolas Maduro (Venezuela)
 * [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Ferdinad Marcos (Philippines) [[File:Marcos.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Rodrigo Duterte (Philippines) [[File:Duterte.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Hungary.png]] Viktor Orbán (Hungary) [[File:FIDESZ.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Kazakhstan.png]] Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan) [[File:NurOtan.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Azerbaijan.png]] Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan) [[File:YAP(Azerbaijan).png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Chechnya.png]] Ramzan Kadyrov (Chechnya under Russia)
 * [[File:Cball-Uzbekistan.png]] Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan)
 * [[File:Cball-Tajikistan.png]] Emomali Rahmon (Tajikistan)
 * [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) [[File:Absoc.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) [[File:NDP(Egypt).png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (Egypt) [[File:El-Sisi.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Tunisia.png]] Ben Ali (Tunisia) [[File:BenAli.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] Kings of Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia) [[File:HouseOfSaud.png]]
 * [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Muammar Gaddafi (Libya)
 * [[File:Cball-Libya.png]] Khalifa Haftar (Libya)
 * [[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Hafez al-Assad (Syria) [[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Bashar al-Assad (Syria) [[File:Baath.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Persia.png]] Reza Shah (Pahlavi Iran) [[File:Pahlavi.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Persia.png]] Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Pahlavi Iran) [[File:Pahlavi.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Ruhollah Khomeini (Islamic Republic of Iran) [[File:Khom.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Ali Khamenei (Islamic Republic of Iran) [[File:Khom.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Qasem Soleimani (Islamic Republic of Iran) [[File:IRGC.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Islamic Republic of Iran) [[File:Khom.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-South Africa alt.png]] P.W. Botha (Apartheid South Africa) [[File:NasionaleParty(Apartheid).png]]
 * [[File:Mobutism.png]] Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire) [[File:MobutuSeseSeko.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Zimbabwe.png]] Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) [[File:Mug.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-CAR.png]] Jean-Bedel Bokassa (CAR) [[File:Bokassa.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Sudan.png]] Omar al-Bashir (Sudan) [[File:NCP(Sudan).png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Rwanda.png]] Paul Kagame (Rwanda) [[File:FPR(Rwanda).png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Pakistan.png]] Yahya Khan (Pakistan)
 * [[File:Cball-Pakistan.png]] Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Pakistan) [[File:Zia.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-India.png]] Indira Gandhi (India)
 * [[File:Cball-India.png]] Narendra Modi (India) [[File:BJP.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Myanmar.png]] Than Shwe (Myanmar)
 * [[File:Cball-Myanmar.png]] Min Aung Hlaing (Myanmar) [[File:Tatmadaw.png]]
 * [[File:Thailand.png]] Plaek Phibunsonggram (Thailand)
 * [[File:Thailand.png]] Thanom Kittikachorn (Thailand)
 * [[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Mahathir Mohamad (Malaysia) [[File:Mahathir.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Suharto (Indonesia) [[File:Suharto.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-BANG.png]] Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh) [[File:Hasina.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Brunei.png]] Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei) [[File:SultanBrunei.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Cambodia.png]] Hun Sen (Cambodia) [[File:Hun Sen.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-IRAfghanistan.png]] Ashraf Ghani (Afghanistan) [[File:Ghani.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Algeria.png]] Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Algeria) [[File:FLN.png]]

Literature

 * On Authority by [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Friedrich Engels

Articles

 * Authoritarian Theory

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