As Anarchists we're often presented with monolithic arguments, we're told we must have the State because we've always had the State, that we must have capitalism because we've always had capitalism, that we need money because we've always had money, and that we need prisons because we've always had them. But in terms of the history of humanity, all these things are very recent, and the idea of mass incarceration as a punishment is very new indeed.

[Section 2: Ateneo Libertario Del Besos, Barcelona, 27th April 2004, Page 17.]