Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the state? All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?

Therefore, either one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don't know what they're talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion; or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the movement of the proletariat. In either case they serve the reaction.

On Authority (1872), Frederick Engels

Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China.
Long live chinese socialism!
Long live Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping!
Long live the chinese people! 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳

Join me for a livestream on how the US/EU/Canada are training Nazis in Ukraine, and how the corrupt International Criminal Court dropped an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan

It starts at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT

https://rokfin.com/stream/9740/USEUCanada-training-Nazis-in-Ukraine-and-corrupt-Intl-Criminal-Court-drops-US-war-crimes-probe

The coup-plotters, assassins, and torturers at the CIA have created a new "China Mission Center" specially dedicated to waging the new cold war on Beijing, which the spy agency referred to as Washington's “key rival” (ie, target for destabilization and overthrow).

The CIA officially designated China "the most important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st century."

So get ready for even more propaganda and fake news, destabilization operations, and separatist campaigns targeting Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/cia-china-focused-unit-515548

https://twitter.com/litterpdx/status/1451087470993436672?s=21

Nothing like littering entire cities to hurt the ruling class, and not the worker… 😹

If this isn’t some psyop, I ain’t sure what is.

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Marx on Private Property

At least 323 people have been killed in 91 massacres in Colombia so far in 2021.

Meanwhile there is almost zero coverage in mainstream English-language corporate media -- and the US continues to prop up the authoritarian Colombian narco-regime that sponsors the paramilitary death squads responsible for many of these massacres.

But Washington and its water boys in the press really want you to know that Colombia's neighbor Venezuela is the real problem!

https://www.nodal.am/2021/12/colombia-91-masacres-en-lo-que-va-del-ano-y-mas-de-320-personas-asesinadas/

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Marx on Religion