Meanings
plural authcoms
- InternetgovernmentA supporter of authoritarian communism.
Anarchists watching some twitter authcom start posting about "degeneracy of the west" and "traditional values"
2021 November 8, @unflicuneballe, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Oct 20254 more examples
The people the online left admits are "red fascists" are really just guilty of saying the quiet part loud and too quickly... because inevitiably ML/Tankie/authcoms types will agree with the meat and potatoes of their rhetoric to the point its indistinguishable until ass is shown.
2022 August 13, u/diode_milliampere, “Tankiejerk, a Popular Subreddit dedicated to making fun of tankies, starts purging liberals. Stalin Would be Proud.”, in Reddit, r/SubredditDrama, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025Zionist narratives about Palestinians and authcom narratives about victims of ostensibly "communist"/anti-Western regimes are literally the same, word for word
2023 December 16, @nocturnologist, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025I'm going to focus myself on learning about guerrilla tactics and movements. I didn't realize how many books I already had about these topics, that I hadn't read yet. Authcoms love telling ppl to get armed and learn self defense. That's not how you form a militant resistance
2024 May 31, @entierrada, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025Yeah the third arrow is a big deal to some people for some reason. I always took it to mean authcoms, but that's just me.
2025 September 18, u/DentistPitiful5454, “Well that was quick...”, in Reddit, r/liberalgunowners, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025
Origin
From auth (“authoritarian”) + com (“communist”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
authcom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/authcom
“authcom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/authcom. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “authcom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/authcom.
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