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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9446722" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, he contradicts himself not just in fiction (where it can be simply viewed as explorational) but in some of his non-fictional discussion, so that doesn't help.  Its hard to argue he's not right wing (at least by the time most of his well known works land) but its pretty easy to argue he's very much of two (or more) minds when it comes to a number of features within it.  Sometimes he comes across as being a bit too much into the authoritarian, sometimes he's very strongly anti-authoritarian.My own suspicion is that he thought some authoritarian approaches were the only practical ones for some problems while simultaneously not being at all happy with where he knew that seemed to always end up.  So he'd try to tell himself you could have your cake and eat it too, leading to some obviously incoherent positions.</blockquote>