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There are 457 upvotes, and 93 downvotes. Tanks being pictured isn't ironic at all, considering this meme is pro-China and anti-US.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
I mean on the other hand Marx was anarchist (though with the exception to have authoritarianism as means to change the system, which I don't agree with, because it's also unrealistic to assume that people in charge just throw away their power).
I think having Authoritarianism no matter how, just gravitates towards people that should definitely be not in charge. We see this everywhere. Power corrupts and dehumanizes.
Marx was the polar opposite of an anarchist in many ways. Marx supported collectivization into one unified system, anarchists support communalization into countless decentrally linked systems. Marx supported dialectical and historical materialism, anarchists often fall into idealist and subjectivist trappings. Marx developed scientific socialism, while anarchism is largely utopian. Anarchists can be good comrades, but Marx was not an anarchist.