Ironically, calling anarchism "disorganization" is almost always a result of capitalist/authoritarian propaganda about what anarchism is. Sorry you can't conceive of a world where people organize themselves without the use of oppressive violence.

Authoritarian communism is predicated on the contradictory idea that their government--which, being a state, is legitimized by its monopoly on violence--is able to accurately reflect the mechanics of dialectical materialism in its decision-making and attempts to serve the working class. I don't believe those two things can work together. You are inherently restricting the revolution by deciding that certain groups are allowed to use force while others are not.

As an anti-authoritarian, this is way too oversimplified of a reason to be against authoritarianism. 'Extremism' is a practically meaningless word that tends to translate to "this person's methods for enacting political change scare me, therefore they are Bad" and is usually used to incarcerate black and brown people who don't perform acceptability for white people. If you genuinely consider yourself for collective liberation, I implore you to think with more nuance here. There are plenty of reasons to dislike tankies that aren't just vague liberal sentiments

None of this relates to my point though. Everything you mention here is possible (and as an anarchist, necessary) to carry out while treating the children as equals and not infringing on their autonomy.

For when, why, ani how you exercise those liberations is how those children will praxis and react in the future.

I don't know what this means. Someone not knowing how to liberate themselves and learning it from someone who does is not a state of them being under the power of the teacher. Teaching does not inherently entail restriction in autonomy and is only an assertion of power to the extent that we allow it to be.

Also, children's liberation is absolutely a thing and you can/should read about it.

Yep, are still trying find a solution for this quandary

Ok but at that point, why still use "vanguard"? I'd understand wanting to reclaim it to mean something other than its historical meaning. But as it stands, when most people hear "vanguard", they understand it to mean Lenin/Stalin. And I think anyone building a revolution based on a "vanguard" broadly speaking would need to be super fucking careful to not fall into that trap themselves.

Welcome to the mammalia Class. As a minor, did you consent to your caregivers’ care methods? Were you allowed to adult? Get educated?

This is why child liberation theory is a thing. You're right that we give parents power over their children, and an anarchist analysis would say that's a bad thing.

The problem with vanguardism isn't that there are people who protect/stand up for others, it's that it inevitably institutionalizes those people into positions of power over those others. Nurses, caregivers, etc. aren't "supposed" to have power over their patients, but they very often do. Humans are already good at protecting and supporting each other--no need to risk creating a power differential by forming a designated vanguard to rigidify it.

I feel like maybe I'm missing something because I tried Bazzite for a bit (before switching to vanilla Fedora) and found it kind of overwhelming? Like there was so much stuff installed by default and it wasn't super clear to me how it all was supposed to work together to do basic things like package management (esp. since dnf doesn't work)

Thank you! I will read these.

Side note, I think knowing that you put both the Zapatistas and the CPP in the same category of "authoritarian socialism" is helping me understand your perspective better. I think you're wrong, but I can at least understand where you're coming from, so thank you for that.

Challenging and limiting institutional power is not relevant to conversations about avoiding authoritarianism?

Please educate me about how authoritarian socialist countries ensure and maintain accountability to the people (or point me to where I can research myself)! I'd love to be wrong about this