Absolutely correct. Authoritarianism is a propaganda word. “Anti-authoritarians” never consider the context of who holds authority, and whether the authority is used to benefit regular people or just the ruling class. They also easily gulled into thinking that the forms of freedom (e. g. democracy as outlined in the US constitution) equate to actual freedom, instead of analyzing the material reality (that the US is entirely ruled by the wealthy, and that the working class holds essentially no political power).

When you look at these forms and realities, it is obvious that the United States is more authoritarian than China, for example.