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A nuclear physicist can win the Nobel prize without ever knowing about work in an African uranium mine. Philip Taft can write the standard work on union government without knowing about men who are blacklisted and receive death threats...
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Or will the workers at last learn the great lesson of the Russian Revolution that every government, whatever its fine name and nice promises is by its inherent nature, as a government, destructive of the very purposes of the social revolution? It is the mission of government to govern, to subject, to strengthen and perpetuate itself. It is high time the workers learn that only their own organized, creative efforts, free from Political and State interference, can make their age-long struggle for emancipation a lasting success.
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...either the Republic resolves the peasants and industrial workers' problems or the people will do so on their own.
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A system based on private property and the authority of power cannot live without slaves. And if the workers want to be dignified, to live freely and control their own destinies, then they shouldn't wait for the government to give them their liberty. Economic and political freedom is not something given; it has to be taken.
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Those who of late have shown themselves so ready to resist the just claims of labor, who, under the influence of interest and passion, have hurried into the arena with their penal laws, and have come forward, brandishing their parchment statutes, as if they, poor beings, could whip mankind into patience and submission, when these weapons of theirs -- these penal laws and parchment statutes -- derive all their power, whether for evil or for good, from the sanctity with which we are pleased to invest them...
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I would prefer to be a workman, hired by a poor man on a peasant farm, than rule as king of all the dead.
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...why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?
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Today the discontent mingling with the hum of toil in field and shop gives notice that the growing people find themselves shut in on all sides by class laws which make our currency, roads, lands, franchises, labor, like the Roman provinces which were put at the mercy of a few proconsuls.
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If the proletariat gave and gives so many heroes and martyrs of the cause of human redemption, it also gives off the white guards, the slaughterers, the traitors of their own brothers, without which the bourgeois tyranny could not last a single day.
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Today, in the face of the persistent and menacing demands of the proletariat, governments show a tendency to interfere in the relations between employers and work people. Thus they try to arrest the labor movement and to impede with delusive reforms the attempts of the poor to take to themselves what is due to them, namely, an equal share of the good things of life that others enjoy.
["Anarchy," by Errico Malatesta.]
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Parliamentary action deteriorates into a mere quarrel of politicians, and serves to fool the people, or at best to patch up dirty old capitalism. At the same time mass strikes of the workers tend to become most serious attacks against State power, that fortress of capitalism, and most efficient factors in increasing the consciousness and social power of the working class.
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...the modern state [exists] as the organ of political power for the forcible subjugation and oppression of the non-possessing classes.
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...catastrophes may ... be averted if, instead of pursuing a policy of violent suppression, the ideal of social peace is honourly maintained, and if there is progressive promotion of the economic, intellectual, and moral elevation of the laboring class...
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Therefore the non-possessor will regard the state as a power protecting the possessor, which privileges the latter, but does nothing for him, the non-possessor, but to suck his blood.
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But the class of laborers... remains a power hostile to this state, this state of possessors, this "citizen kingship."
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...they who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time in accumulating property.
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Similarly inconsistent with the rule about doing unto others as we would that others should do unto us is the working men's support of the ownership, of land, be it by means of violence in the form of soldiers, or in the form of laborers or tenants on the land. Such a support of the ownership of land is inconsistent, because, if such acts for a time improve the condition of those persons who perform them, they certainly make the condition of other working men worse.
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April 14, 2020 : The State -- Added.
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