I remember having to read this for a political philosophy class years ago. I came across it again today and despite the 19th century references it seems somewhat relevant to some of the political rhetoric being used in the last few years. Yes, it's written by Friedrich Engels. No, you won't turn pink if you read it.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
> But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon...
