Are there any books defending the (for lack of a better word) "authoritarianism" of the USSR/DPRK and China?
A lot of the defenses of these countries I've seen from Marxists is to try and say they're not as authoritarian as we think or try and show how capitalist countries are equally or more authoritarian. But as someone who sees no problem with it is there any actual defense of the Communist Party having a strong influence?
>A lot of the defenses of these countries I've seen from Marxists is to try and say they're not as authoritarian as we think or try and show how capitalist countries are equally or more authoritarian.
Both of those things are true and are good lines of argument to make.
>But as someone who sees no problem with it is there any actual defense of the Communist Party having a strong influence?
Off the top of my head Blackshirts and Reds is a pretty good one, although it also makes the two above arguments alongside arguing that communist "authoritarianism" was a natural and inevitable response to conditions of siege.
>>2576217I read plenty of Marx and Engles I don't see a lot of defense of modern Marxist state influence