NOUN
- a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people
How To Use authoritarian state In A Sentence
- In an authoritarian state, those in power set the limit of freedom.
- The corporation controlled by the financial oligarchy eclipses the modern state and replaces the legal framework within which even the most authoritarian state operates with its sole Law - the urge for profit.
- Arrogating universality to itself, the authoritarian state which arose over these exclusive particulars thwarted the self-activity of its people, and concealed the source of its authority behind a veil of religious sanctification.
- Old models of ‘one party, authoritarian states’ were rejected as incompatible with democratic socialism.
- Can we argue that democratic states are more peaceloving than authoritarian states?
- These are age-old canards that undermine freedom and encourage authoritarian states.
- David Davis’ Quixotic decision to force a bye-election on the single issue of the authoritarian state being put in place, piece by piece, by the Castroist tendency in British politics falls like a grenade in our midst. Liberty: There is No Finer Cause
- As Reich puts it: The reactionary middle-class man perceives himself in the Fuhrer, in the authoritarian state.
