I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point
Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down
“Leftists” who are more interested in authoritarianism than leftism. At their very worst, they even ally with the far-right.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
“Authoritarianism is when people want things, not when government exerts force!”
Are you saying that Marx and Engels weren’t Leftists?
Not at all. They were wrong on certain things, which people like Stalin used to justify his own horrible stuff.
You’re linked a direct refutation on “anti-authouritarians” from Engels. Marx and Engels were criticized as “Authoritarian” by Anarchists of their era. Either Marx and Engels were Authoritarian in your eyes and thus not Leftists, or the Authoritarian argument itself is misplaced as a thought-terminating cliche as Engels points out, that avoids grappling with the Marxist theory of the State.
You might wanna work on your reading comprehension if that is what you get from Engels text