More importantly, Bakunin criticized "authoritarian socialism" (which he associated with Marxism) and the concept of dictatorship of the proletariat which he adamantly refused.
It hastened the process by which the Labour Party developed into a unitary political party in alliance with the trade unions and with a commitment to parliamentary socialism and against authoritarian socialism.
The consequence of Marx's authoritarian socialism is the Soviet regime, a twin evil of fascism, according to Rudolf Rocker.
The rejection of authoritarian socialism does not necessarily constitute proof of the rejection of programs and values associated with the social market or social democratic welfare state.
Robert Owen is still influential today and a newly-restored New Lanark is now a shrine for Japanese businessmen eager to explore his system of benign authoritarian socialism.
It has been argued that at some point the Second International turned "into a battleground over the issue of libertarian versus authoritarian socialism.
He had spoken out against authoritarian socialism in his writings (for example The Conquest of Bread), making the prediction that any state founded on these principles would most likely see its own breakup and the restoration of capitalism.
Now, after decades of this continent's most orthodox authoritarian socialism under one of his rivals, Dr. Jagan is making a comeback.
The Socialist League was formed in 1885 by William Morris and others critical of the authoritarian socialism of the Social Democratic Federation.
Declaring that "authoritarian socialism has come to an end," he urged Yugoslavia's Communists "to catch up with the pace of democratic reforms" in Europe.