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Ukrainian, Anarchist Revolutionary, Abolisher of Concentration Camps, and the Commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War
: A Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War. Makhno was the namesake of the Makhnovshchina (loosely translated as "Makhno movement"), a predominantly peasant phenomenon that grew into a mass social movement. It was initially centered around Makhno's hometown Huliaipole but over the course of the Ukrainian Civil War came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #8 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and Oppression
“The fact that the modern State is the organizational form of an authority founded upon arbitrariness and violence in the social life of toilers is independent of whether it may be "bourgeois" or "proletarian." It relies upon oppressive centralism, arisng out of the direct violence of a minority deployed against the majority. In order to enforce and impose the legality of its system, the State resorts not only to the gun and money, but also to potent weapons of psychological pressure. With the aid of such weapons, a tiny group of politicians enforces psychological repression on an entire society, and, in particular, of the toiling masses, conditioning them in such a way as to divert their attention from the slavery instituted by the State.”
Source: "The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 56. "The Struggle Against the State," Dyelo Truda, No. 17, October 1926, pp. 5-6.
"The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 56. "The Struggle Against the State," Dyelo Truda, No. 17, October 1926, pp. 5-6.
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