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Propaganda by who? Do you believe all authoritarian governments are right wing then?

Specifically who actually funded all of the changes? No clue. Popularized by? David Nolan. Prior to the Nolan Chart, now known as the political compass (though considerably less white-washed in its modern form), "libertarian" was a term used as the name for a group of French communists and "authoritarian" was used explicitly to refer to governments that took power away from the people (and not "there is literally no government" as it is commonly thought of today... once again, something that can be traced directly back to Nolan). This is part of the reason that communism was considered so hard to pin down as you have the effectively-fascist versions that came about in Russia and China while on the flip side you had the definition coming from a manifesto that was very clearly leftist (stuff like "has no state" and "has no currency" being very clearly as far from authoritarian/right as was possible). It is also why there was a large number of people espousing "no true communism" as none of the implementations even slightly resembled The Communist Manifesto, which was viewed as a form of definition for the governmental type (in what I will personally call "the communist paradox" as I don't believe there is any real term for it).

This is also why there is some heavy double-think when it comes to social versus economic choices in the standard political climate despite the fact that every choice can always be boiled down to an economic one (specifically "does this consolidate wealth in a smaller group in the long run", with "no" always being something attributed to the left and "yes" always being something attributed to the right). Splitting them up was the only way for Nolan to make his chart have a "lack of government" section for his ur-conservative party.