Right, it should be possible for an individual to recognize, and a society to learn from, the success of directed economies in areas like sustainable development while at the same time being critical of authoritarianism and violation of human rights.

Those who demonstrate an inability to do so have relinquished, or been robbed of, a fundamental aspect of human cognition often called “critical thinking” (批判性思考, 비판적 사유, критическое мышление).