11/04/2022
To Ash specifically,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
I present to you, Engels: On Authority. A short treatise on authority and it's myriad forms
One of my primary concerns with anarchism, is that it seeks to criticize power in all forms, but Engels displays here and in no uncertain terms in my opinion that authority can come in all shapes and sizes. Not only does societal progress derive from authority, but production itself, by it's very nature relies upon an authority that is by all accounts, above criticism.
~with sincerity,
Levi
Written: 1872; Published: 1874 in the Italian, Almanacco Republicano; Source: Marx-Engels Reader, New York: W. W. Norton and Co., second edition, 1978 (first edition, 1972), pp 730-733.; Translated: Robert C. Tucker; Transcribed: by Mike Lepore.
