Re-read the 1868 programme of the Alliance by Bakunin, which both Marx and Engels read. It claimed that "all the political and authoritarian States of today must scale down their functions to the simple administration of the public services" and "merge into the universal union of free Associations".

October 05, 2025 - 15:58 UTC

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The sociologist Pierre Ansart argued that both Marxism and Anarchism had shared roots in Saint-Simonism. It’s commonly argued that the central thesis of Saint-Simon is the replacement of government with administration.
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"The practical measures proposed in them [utopian socialist/communist publications] — such as [...] the conversion of the function of the state into a mere superintendence of production [...]"
Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
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"In 1816, he [Saint-Simon] declares that politics is the science of production, and foretells the complete absorption of politics by economics. [...] conversion of political rule over men into an administration of things and a direction of processes of production [...]"
Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878)
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I know. I'm saying I think Engels might, in addition to this, be subtweeting anarchists by saying we both advocate this thing in the same words. Not sure if this was clear enough.
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You might want to reread that all it helps to do is create is a tyranny if you need evidence read up on Swedish history.
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