That's kind of what I was afraid of. I'm genuinely interested in a compelling critique. Like I mentioned, I haven't seen one. I still sympathize with anarchists but I truly don't understand how we do the switch-a-roo to communism with a snap. Like, nothing in history has worked that way, let alone, it would seem, a transition from class society to classless, arguably the greatest achievement of all time when it's done.

But, yeah, this is probably wrong place to ask. I'll seek out another Lemmy I guess.

Haha. Stalin's got a way with words for sure. But you are probably right about anarchists not reading him.

Don't bother. It's paragraphs of "Bakunin good, Engels poo-poo-head". The mountains of assertions it makes fail to justify the following:

Ultimately, Engels is simply confusing obedience with agreement, coercion with co-operation, organisation with authority, objective reality with despotism.

It's really not worth the read.

I have read it, and I have 0 idea why anarchists insist on using Baukin as there primary source when the guy was a raging anti-semite, racist and basically his entire career was him seething that no one took him as seriously as Marx while he ranted and raved about the 'parastic jewish nation' (totally not a cope at his perception of marx being a jew) and betrays what anarchisms roots are; which is a 3rd path response to a perceived jewish state grabbing for power.