People confuse the difference between having authority and imposing authority.

Engels does such a good job of calling out calling out the anarchist tendency to constantly try renaming / rebranding things just because of how they function under capitalism.

But the necessity of authority, and of imperious authority at that, will nowhere be found more evident than on board a ship on the high seas. There, in time of danger, the lives of all depend on the instantaneous and absolute obedience of all to the will of one.

When I submitted arguments like these to the most rabid anti-authoritarians, the only answer they were able to give me was the following: Yes, that’s true, but there it is not the case of authority which we confer on our delegates, but of a commission entrusted! These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world.

Work? Alienating under capitalism, so lets cancel all work! Or lets call it something else!

Authority? Bosses and leaders only act in their self interest, never in the communal interest, so lets cancel all hierarchical structures!

Police? Lets rebrand them as community defense coalitions!

States / Organizations? Now they’re decentralized autonomous coops!

Prisons? They’re now participatory rehabilitation centers!

Organized production? No more, now its done by decentralized anarcho-syndicates!