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 in order to defend revolutionary gains.
Source: “On Authority”, in Marx/Engels Collected Works, volume 23, 1988.
EDIT: As if to add insult to injustice, Jessie had her “friend Steve Shives who is a self-professed reformist liberal” read that Engels’s misquotation.
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’.
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,…
their technically not wrong, it isn’t necessary to read any to be an anarchist
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!
