Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is an ideology which promotes deference relations to create a stable command hierarchy at all costs. It is most often associated with ants, bees, or human militarism and fascism.

One symptom of this view is that it creates alleged factions or claims of conspiracy and combines these into complex alleged and collective identity claims, e.g. w:Stalin was known to do this just prior to purges.

In large public wikis this ideology becomes the wiki ideology of sysop vandalism, in which the futility of the wiki mission and the absolute domination of a controlling clique over that mission becomes obvious, even in clear violation of license terms.

See anti-authoritarianism in practice for ways this ideology is resisted.