libertarian socialist/communist When your socialist communist group arms and starts defending themselves and their class interests, what prevents someone labeling them as authoritarian for doing so? Socialist countries like the PRC lived through a hundred years of imperial exploitation by foreign powers (Britain, the US, and Japan), and fought a decades-long civil war against feudal reactionaries to finally liberate themselves from these oppressions. Do you know something they don’t, about how to establish socialism, “non-authoritarianly”?