I’m not at all trying to suggest that Stalinist Russia was more free than modern-day America, just that many people think of America as a free country when it’s actually closer to Stalinist Russia than they’d care to recognize.
My point is that the United States is indeed much less authoritarian. Saying that there’s no such thing as a state that’s more authoritarian or less authoritarian is denying reality.
US incarceration rate is higher than what USSR had during Stalin’s purges. It’s hard to think of a better measure of how authoritarian a state is than the percentage of the population it keeps behind bars.
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I’m not at all trying to suggest that Stalinist Russia was more free than modern-day America, just that many people think of America as a free country when it’s actually closer to Stalinist Russia than they’d care to recognize.
My point is that the United States is indeed much less authoritarian. Saying that there’s no such thing as a state that’s more authoritarian or less authoritarian is denying reality.
US incarceration rate is higher than what USSR had during Stalin’s purges. It’s hard to think of a better measure of how authoritarian a state is than the percentage of the population it keeps behind bars.
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