Authoritarianism and AUTHORITY in general is not a problem
The problem is when that authority is corrupt and self-serving
If we had a noble and honorable and upright government, I would be perfectly fine with it exercising absolute authority
We do not have this.
We have the reign of the Epstein Class and their control of both wings of the Corporate Duopoly
We have Tyranny
The CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom did a great deal of work trying to paint all AES countries as "authoritaian" and constructed the Non-Communist Left to oppose what it called Stalinism which is just Marxism-Leninism