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Communists are not upset at any use of authority, but the authority of capitalists against workers. Communists want the working classes to have state authority. The idea that communists just love authority is liberal cope used to distract from the argument that the working classes specifically should have state power.
If communists don't love authority then why promote a political system centred around it. There are literally thousands of different flavours but you chose this one.
Any ideology that supports the existence of a state at any point is "authoritarian." What matters most is which class controls that authority. When the working classes control the state, as communists wish to establish (and have), this creates more freedom and quality of life for the working classes. The state is a tool, not an ideal.
Why do we need a state?
Because the state exists as long as classes exist, and classes will continue to exist until production and distribution is fully collectivized. This requires highly advanced productive forces and the full conquest of political power by the working classes, which is a far way off.
That's coherent and very possibly true but from where I am sitting Communism is just as far off as the end of the global order of statehoods.
Sure? Communism is a post-socialist mode of production and distribution characterized by fully collectivized means of production and distribution. It's stateless, classless, and moneyless. Socialism is immediate and already exists, and thus is the next step.
To resolve conflicts between the classes, the employers vs the employees