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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

To be fair, the establishment dictionary definitions of those words are about as useless as the urbandictionary definitions.

Even the Wikipedia definitions have their issues, because they’re written in the register of liberal/bourgeois hegemony. Just look at “totalitarianism”: it’s Arendtian horsepoo theory. Hannah Arendt came from a wealthy family and so unsurprisingly was anticommunist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.