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On Authority is Trash (www.youtube.com)

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Anark explains how a celebrated essay by Engels is utter garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Maybe you just have oppositional defiant disorder?

(JK, but a tankie actually said this me when I questioned their authority.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

They have some very strange takes sometimes. I've been called a "wrecker" because I reject "left unity" which in their mind is me trying to "destroy the movement" or smt

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jup. Reading "On Authority" a few years ago made me lose most of the respect I had for Engels / his writings