"Authoritarian" is a slippery word, but "decentralized and human-scaled" is a lot more applicable to what we need.
It really doesn't take much energy to provide humans with their essential needs. With good urban design, each person in cooler climates only requires about two tons of firewood per year for heating and cooking, the equivalent of a small fraction of an acre of pollarded trees. In temperate zones you can supply a city of up to about 200k people just from polycultures and agroforestry within easy biking distance (5 miles from the edge of town).
Most consumer goods get replaced within 1-2 years, promptly becoming trash. Much of the discourse behind "productive forces", that does not specify what specifically is happening to improve quality of life, is just replicating the paradigm of overconsumption that we have been in since the 1910s. Pursuing a consumer goods economy, instead of building things to last and to be recycled or composted at end-of-life, is presuming a path of ecological devastation.
Keeping the means of existence easily understood and accessible and replicable is the most assured way of checking the power of the bourgeoisie and building a counter-power against them.