Engels’s quote in context:
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 reactionaries.
Engels was talking about revolutionaries’ suppressing reactionaries.
Source: “On Authority”, in Marx/Engels Collected Works, volume 23, 1988.
Do they never read what left opportunism and commandism is and that every marxist-leninist opposes it? wth is this uninformed half assed crap.
Do they never read […]?
Well,…
Organizing is a bourgeois concept, the proletariat must be disorganized.
Yes! Yes!
The revolution will spontaneously happen, the proletariat will organize itself. Nothing is to be done!
Impossible to satirize.
living caricature
Also Engels did not argue that revolutions must be authoritarian. That implies choice on the matter.
Revolutions are, per definition, authoritarian.
Among anarchists, Jessie’s theoretical base is weak. Other anarchists (with firmer theoretical base) begrudgingly agree with Engels about the nature of revolution; their only gripe is against Engels’s word choice.
their only gripe is against Engels’s word-choice.
“These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves.”
The video’s title is
I just realized it because of you. What is that title?
Video’s current title is “Anti-Fascism” is the Leftism of Fools
1st known title was “We’ve Mistaken Antifascism for Revolution”.
& I feel not like wasting my precious time to track how many other titles this video went thru’.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The first known title is weird too: Anti-revolutionary anti-fascism? Sounds very liberal, honestly.
YouTube introduced AB testing that’s why every video changes titles now. The uploader tries two titles, and half get title a half get title b. Then the title that performs better gets picked definitively.
/s I do love my fellow moderate wing of fascism trans women, great to see
Frederick Engles? Oh my god that seems like a parody (even though those might be auto-subtitles or whatever they are called).
