What are some good resources I could read to inform myself on the Anarchist/Anarcho-Communist definition of "Authority"?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54566460

Books, pamphlets, manifestos, you name it/whatever. Please just leave out terminally online "bread"tubers, thank you.
Ideally from a few reputable Anarchist to get a better picture. The literature doesn't have to be exclusively about authority, but should mention it in relative detail.

Edit: Since I rightfully got called out on the following sentence by Five as being demeaning of online educators work

Please just leave out terminally online "bread"tubers, thank you.

I should maybe clarify that I meant people like Contrapoints who have delightfully little to do with any kind of leftistm, let alone Anarchism

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I appreciate you, @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but I don't appreciate this energy. The 'bread' in Breadtube is related to Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread -- a seminal anarchist work. It doesn't deserve to be quoted when referring to actual anarchists. Calling people who dedicate a lot of energy to producing educational videos 'terminally online' is demeaning, and thowing stones from glass houses considering how active we both are on Lemmy.
This is not a 'debate an anarchist' or Anarchy101 community, and I'm not eager to pivot in that direction either. I think those kind of communities have value tho, and I'm disappointed your !AnarchismVsMarxism community hasn't taken off.
If you're coming from Marxism, your reference for anarchism's position is probably "On Authority" by Engels. A good response to that rhetoric is probably JudgeSabo's Read On Authority, I've posted it in your com.
I'm going to lock this thread, but anyone who wants to meet Alsaaas where she is I suggest you post similar texts for discussion there too.