Works of Frederick Engels 1872
On Authority

Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the state? All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?

Therefore, either one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don't know what they're talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion; or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the movement of the proletariat. In either case they serve the reaction.


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🔴 Fact: Trotsky Wanted USSR's Defeat
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Trotsky is often depicted as a victim of Stalin's purges, but evidence suggests otherwise. Before his exile, he advocated overthrowing the Soviet government, even prioritizing his faction's goals over defending the USSR. During World War II, he escalated his criticism, equating Stalin with Hitler and calling for rebellion against the Soviet government. Trosky’s actions aligned him with forces seeking the USSR's destruction. However, his plans failed, and the Soviet Union ultimately defeated Germany, liberating Europe and securing peace for decades.

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The proletarian is helpless; left to himself, he cannot live a single day. The bourgeoisie has gained a monopoly of all means of existence in the broadest sense of the word. What the proletarian needs, he can obtain only from this bourgeoisie, which is protected in its monopoly by the power of the state.

Engels
The Condition of the Working Class in England
1845

The Condition of the Working Class in England is Frederick Engels' groundbreaking first book, published in 1845. Written during his time in Salford and Manchester, the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution, the book gives a vivid, firsthand account of the harsh realities faced by factory workers in Victorian England. Originally written in German, it wasn’t translated into English until 1887. Engels combined his personal observations with reports of the time to paint a powerful picture of exploitation and poverty. His work caught the attention of Karl Marx, who found it deeply inspiring for their later collaborations.

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In this connection, a word or two as to the respect for the law in England. True, the law is sacred to the bourgeois, for it is his own composition, enacted with his consent, and for his benefit and protection. He knows that, even if an individual law should injure him, the whole fabric protects his interests; and more than all, the sanctity of the law, the sacredness of order as established by the active will of one part of society, and the passive acceptance of the other, is the strongest support of his social position. Because the English bourgeois finds himself reproduced in his law, as he does in his God, the policeman's truncheon which, in a certain measure, is his own club, has for him a wonderfully soothing power. But for the working-man quite otherwise! The working-man knows too well, has learned from too oft-repeated experience, that the law is a rod which the bourgeois has prepared for him; and when he is not compelled to do so, he never appeals to the law. It is ridiculous to assert that the English working-man fears the police, when every week in Manchester policemen are beaten, and last year an attempt was made to storm a station-house secured by iron doors and shutters. The power of the police in the turnout of 1842 lay, as I have already said, in the want of a clearly defined object on the part of the working-men themselves.

Condition of the Working Class in England, by Engels, 1845
Labour Movements

In its struggle for power the proletariat has no other weapon but organisation. Disunited by the rule of anarchic competition in the bourgeois world, ground down by forced labour for capital, constantly thrust back to the “lower depths” of utter destitution, savagery, and degeneration, the proletariat can, and inevitably will, become an invincible force only through its ideological unification on the principles of Marxism being reinforced by the material unity of organisation, which welds millions of toilers into an army of the working class. Neither the senile rule of the Russian autocracy nor the senescent rule of international capital will be able to withstand this army. It will more and more firmly close its ranks, in spite of all zigzags and backward steps, in spite of the opportunist phrase-mongering of the Girondists of present-day Social-Democracy, in spite of the self-satisfied exaltation of the retrograde circle spirit, and in spite of the tinsel and fuss of intellectualist anarchism.

Lenin

On this day, 27 January 1949, at 12:40pm, Italian fascist Felice Ghisalberti was assassinated by two former anti-fascist partisans of the Volante Rossa as he came out of a restaurant during his lunch break.
The two former partisans (Paolo Finardi, pictured, right, and Elgio Trincheri, left) had been waiting for him in a taxi and, as he exited, ordered the driver to drive past and shot him from the windows before escaping.
Felice Ghisalberti was a former soldier in the Muti Legion of Mussolini's Nazi-backed army of the Italian Social Republic and had bragged about his involvement in roundups, burning houses and torturing women.
Ghisalberti also bragged about his involvement in the murder of legendary communist partisan, Eugenio Curiel (who Finardi knew personally) along with two other partisans. In 1946, Ghisalberti was found not guilty for the crime, despite having declared himself the perpetrator in a report to his commander commander and his co-defendants being sentenced to death.

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