Theories of Authoritarianism

### **Theories & Critiques**

* "Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear" by Xu Zhangrun https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear [EN]
	+ 《愤怒的人民已不再恐惧》- 許章潤 https://matters.news/@Zhizhu\_2019/%E8%BD%89%E8%BC%89-%E8%A8%B1%E7%AB%A0%E6%BD%A4-%E6%84%A4%E6%80%92%E7%9A%84%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%B7%B2%E4%B8%8D%E5%86%8D%E6%81%90%E6%83%A7-zdpuAtQTLkEf6MGa17RjcBdJFHFZAdRTfHPUgDBkCVkTUSg3o [ZH]
* "Montesquieu and despotism" by David Rutledge https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/montesquieu-and-despotism/12438306 [28 minutes, 37 seconds, EN] (Australian state-owned media)
* "Opinion – The Chinese ‘New Left’ as Statist Apologists" by Chris Man-kong Li https://www.e-ir.info/2020/09/09/opinion-the-chinese-new-left-as-statist-apologists [EN]
* "The Expansion of the United Front Under Xi Jinping" by Gerry Groot https://www.thechinastory.org/yearbooks/yearbook-2015/forum-ascent/the-expansion-of-the-united-front-under-xi-jinping/ [EN]
* "Jiang Shigong’s Chinese World Order" by Vincent Garton https://palladiummag.com/2020/02/05/jiang-shigongs-vision-of-a-new-chinese-world-order/ [EN]
* "Be Grateful to the Party! How to Behave in the Aftermath of a Disaster" by Christian Sorace https://madeinchinajournal.com/2018/05/17/be-grateful-to-the-party-how-to-behave-in-the-aftermath-of-a-disaster/[EN]
* “China’s Heart of Darkness — Prince Han Fei & Chairman Xi Jinping (Prologue)” by Zha Jianying http://chinaheritage.net/journal/chinas-heart-of-darkness-prince-han-fei-chairman-xi-jinping-prologue/?lang=zh[EN] (Prologue, the rest of it linked in the bottom of the article)
* "Narrow Anti-Imperialism as Ideological Cover for Authoritarianism" By Yavor Tarinski https://libcom.org/library/narrow-anti-imperialism-ideological-cover-authoritarianism [EN]
* "Belarus and Soviet Authoritarianism: Interview with Ihar Alinevich" https://libcom.org/library/belarus-soviet-authoritarianism-interview-ihar-alinevich [EN]
* "Marx, Bakunin, and the question of authoritarianism" by David Adam https://libcom.org/library/marx-bakunin-question-authoritarianism [EN]

### **Research Articles**

* “The Power of Instability: Unraveling the Microfoundations of Bargained Authoritarianism in China" by Ching Kwan Lee & Yonghong Zhang https://sci-hub.st/10.1086/670802 [PDF, 668 KB, EN]

### **Books**

* “The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, Vol I&II" by Richard N. Hunt Volume I- https://b-ok.asia/book/2668551/896667 [PDF, 35.73 MB, EN] Volume II- https://b-ok.asia/book/2668654/9945b8 [PDF, 45.81 MB, EN] (shows how the most common beliefs held by the authoritarian leftists are clearly dissociated with Marx and Engels’s own views. Volume I demonstrates that Marx did not believe in a vanguard party, unbridled red terror, a revolution carried out by a minority group and undemocratic party structures. It also clarifies how the term ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ has been hijacked by authoritarian leftists. Volume II deals with how Marxist view of the state is falsified by authoritarian leftists and discusses questions of revolutionary strategy advocated by Marx and shows how the Marxist conception of a revolution is intensely democratic)
* "Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" by James C Scott https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-c-scott-seeing-like-a-state [EN]