He mostly explained how he actually didn't really have a proper grasp of what authority actually means. He conflated them with a lot of things without actually making sense. I'm surprised why "On authority" is so widely known.
Sorry, but claiming that just shows that someone didn't engage at all with anarchist theory.
Edit - addendum: even if this wasn't true back then in Engel's days: Still quoting him today ignores all that anarchist theory on power that happened since then.
While he didn't specifically denounce Lenin or Mao, he himself exclaimed once, reacting to self-appointed Marxists: "All I know is that I'm not a marxist." That's what I was referencing.
Are you sure you read anarchist theory? Bakunin didn't claim that states "had issues". Here's a quote, for example:
That is because no state, not even the most republican and democratic, not even the pseudo-popular state contemplated by Marx, in essence represents anything but government of the masses from above downward, by an educated and thereby privileged minority which supposedly understands the real interests of the people better than the people themselves.
The USSR was a state-capitalist state, where the bourgeoisy was replaced with bureaucrats - as predicted by Bakunin. If it were truly socialist, it wouldn't have taken away power from the soviets and Lenin wouldn't have abolished unions in favour of his high-modernist ideas.
I'm not claiming he denounced his own ideas, but rather the people claiming to represent marxism. I'm not claiming that anyone worshipped Marx, but that they misunderstood his work.
No, sorry. Claiming that a state can work to not enslave the masses, just because "the right people" are in charge is the actual idealism.
Your claim about representation is wrong, too. Sorry. Anarchist regions have collapsed due to external military pressure. You should read a book on how well the material conditions improved in Catalonia. Sorry, your claims about anarghist regions failing to improve their material condition runs counter to reality and to the actual Marxist theory (that only the people can free themselves, etc.)
The whole planned economy was bogus. What do you think a class is?
Again, you claim that you know anything about anarchist theory and show time and time again that you don't have the slightest of an idea.
Yes, all of the Marxists have failed to understand Marx, it is in fact *Prunebutt* who resurrected Marx and got him to denounce everyone who used his ideas.
Ok, I've read it and I'm not impressed. The post on hexbear tries to act as if they were seriously considering the anarchist point of view, they are constantly being disingenuous.
The biggest point of critique againstEngels is that he is effectively strawmanning anti-authoritarians, by using a definition of authority that differs from the anarchist definition in a fundamental way. While the hexbear author acknowledges that fact in the beginning and seems to take the (IMHO flawed) definition of the anarchist's critique at face value, he repeats the same mistake that Engels did and takes Engels' definition as the only logical one.
They aren't engaging with the definition in a serious way. That is my point.
I follow a different definition, that's more complete, IMHO: Authority is the monopolization of power from the hands of the many to the hands of the few. With that definition, which is compatible with the bulk of anarchist theory, "On authority" is nothing, but the incoherent ramblings of someone with too much personal beef.
The hexbear author not once seriously engages with any of the two viewpoints given in the anarchist rebuttal. They give this example of a robbery, where they try to reach a point with the anarchist's definition and call it absurd. The only reason, they do so, is begause in the middle of their argument, they switch definitions back to Engels' definition. If I change the preconditions in the middle of my logical chain, shit will get goofy. Duh.
You mean the definition of authority that the video you linked as a rebuttal is based on? Because that is the one that is being critiqued.
No. The video and the essay huse different definitions. You didn't watch the -ideo, or didn't listen to it, properly.
The argument is that the alternate definition that the anarchist proposes is incoherent.
The hexbear author fails to do so and doesn't properly represent the anarchist's essay's point of view.
Engels created a straw-man. No anti-authoritarian thinks that necessity, or self-defense is authority. Therefore, they don't argue against necessity, or self-defense.
Inwiefern ist es Sinnvoll, Sarah Wagenknecht als "Rechtsextrem" zu bezeichnen? Willst du den Diskurs komplett verdummen, dass kein &wort mehr irgendwas bedeutet?
Merz Aussage trägt schon genug zur Verdummung der Diskurses bei. Lass uns das doch bitte nicht reproduzieren. Sonst divergiert politische Diskussionskultur noch mehr, als jetzt schon.
Glaubst du ernsthaft, wir können den Kapitalismus "wegwählen"?
Nichtwählys als "Steigbügelhalter für Faschisten" zu halten, ist ja wohl dermaßen dämlich und geschichtsrevisionistisch. Du willst wissen, was die AfD zu Wahlerfolgen verhilft? Probier's mal bei den Parteien, die permanent auf das Agendasetting der AfD reinfallen und sich weigert, die sozioökonomischen Verhältnisse von verdrossenen Wähler*innen zu verbessern.
Bin ich mir nicht so sicher, ob du überhaupt so ein Fan von Demokratie bist, wenn du so viel über die "dummen" Wählys schimpfst.
Die FDP scheint nicht so große Schwierigkeiten zu haben, ihre Klientelpolitik zu betreiben.
Ich finde das Interview gerade nicht, aber Tilo Jung hat mal kurz nach Lützi eine Grünen-Abgeordnete interviewt und da gefragt, warum sie die Lützi-entscheidung nicht blockiert hat. Die konnte nur etwas in die Richtung von "naja, so macht man das halt im Bundestag, mir waren die Hände gebunden" sagen. Währenddessen verstößt die Politik von Wissing aktiv gegen deutsches Recht und niemanden interessiert's (außer das Verfassungsgericht ein bisschen).
Wenn du ganz genau hinsiehst, wirst du sehen, dass ich hier nichts über mein Weltbild gesagt habe, sondern lediglich eine Vermutung über dein Weltbild gemacht habe. Du hast (Nicht-)wähler*innen als Idioten bezeichnet und impliziert, dass das bei der Wahl schiefgelaufen ist. Dass du damit implizierst, dass das Problem an der Wahl "Idioten" sind, ist da nicht schwer herauszulesen.
Als ich dann gesagt habe, dass ich die Lösung unserer Probleme nicht im Parlamentarismus sehe,hast du mich beleidigt. (habe übrigens trotzdem gewählt - so viel zum Thema, dass ich mich angesprochen fühlen soll)
Na, dann erklär mir mal mein Weltbild. Bin gespannt, was du mir als nächstes andichtest. Vielleicht bin ich ja beim Kukluxklan, oder sowas.
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