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Posted on 8/5/18 at 11:41 am to
Posted by Antonio Moss
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Posted on 8/5/18 at 11:41 am to
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Socialism yes, but Marxism is explicitly authoritarian.


You’re confused.

Marxist-Socialism, by definition, is totalitarian.

Marxist-Communism, by definition, lacks any central authority.
Posted by crazy4lsu
Member since May 2005
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Posted on 8/5/18 at 11:59 am to
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Marxist-Socialism, by definition, is totalitarian.

Marxist-Communism, by definition, lacks any central authority.


Right, but Marxists also believe that in order to reach the communist phase, it must be under the dictatorship of the proletariat in socialism. Engels in particular was quite explicit about the socialist view of authoritarianism, and both Marx and Engels viewed socialism as the necessary state before full communism. The anarchist factions disagreed and this is where the main split in communist ideology occurs, at the First International.
This post was edited on 8/5/18 at 12:00 pm
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