Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

How is authoritarianism antithetical to socialism when socialism is the state controlling the means of production?

I can see it being antithetical to communism but not socialism.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.