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“AES” meaning “actually existing socialism.” The debate over this word goes all the way back to Engels at least.

Someone else may help me find a link, because I remember reading a different article about this specifically, but these three definitely touch on it:

https://redsails.org/tankies/

https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-totalitarianism/ (this one is about “totalitarianism” and the “horseshoe” theory I referenced above)

What they are saying is that “Authoritarian” is not a precise term that distinguishes anything and was just made up as a way to try to accuse AES states of being just as bad as fascist ones. It’s a horseshoe theory term because any actually accurate term you would use to describe Hitler’s or Mussolini’s ideology would exclude the ideology of socialist states.

A Nazi farts in Palestine?

Not volumes. As you say, a little can go a long way. But rather than relearn the lessons of history from first principles, engaging with writings from people who have already seriously grappled with these things is the only efficient way to wrap one’s mind around many different major factors working simultaneously in the material world.

its time to read theory. you are currently at the utopian anarchist stage. which is a step in a better direction, but ultimately irrational.

you need to better understand that the people in the image [conveniently] on the left incorporated violence because they lived under the constant threat of deadly violence. 99% of the violence was directed at them. Fred Hampton was executed by the police not long after that picture of him was taken.