Stirner being a pseudonym Engels used to avoid Marx's wrath directly and to act as an ideological foil for Marx to respond to is still one of the funniest conspiracy theories I've heard.

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[–] DerKommissar@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"The pure (libertarian) socialists ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted.

Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed." - Michael Parenti, "Blackshirts and Reds"

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