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The DoTP isn't necessarily supposed to be centralized state authority. Marx based his DoTP off the Paris Commune, which was the furthest thing from authoritaria

• JPLeRouzic 5y ago
  > the Paris Commune, which was the furthest thing from authoritarian. For the two months it ran, there was an organized government [0] (conseil de la Commune) which made decrees, there was an army of ~200,000 soldier [1] and there was a Jacobine police which assassinated many people (including other "Communards") without trials [2]. This radicalization in a very short time (two months) was denounced by many other "Communards" and people like Victor Hugo [3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commune_Council_(Paris) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commune_Council_(Paris) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune#National_Guard_takes_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune#National_Guard_t... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Rigault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Rigault [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo#Political_life_and_exile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo#Political_life_and... Citation: Victor Hugo was harshly critical of the atrocities committed on both sides. On 9 April, he wrote in his diary, "In short, this Commune is as idiotic as the National Assembly is ferocious. From both sides, folly." Yet he made a point of offering his support to members of the Commune subjected to brutal repression. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Ann%C3%A9e_terrible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Ann%C3%A9e_terrible