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“the Communists undertook a spirited defence of the small and medium proprietor and tenant farmer against the collectivizing drive of the rural wage-workers, against the policy of the labour unions prohibiting the farmer from holding more land than he could cultivate with his own hands, and against the practices of revolutionary committees, which requisitioned harvests, interfered with private trade, and collected rents from tenant farmers.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism

“Labeling a group a gang is thus as much a matter of selecting the right tools for countering it as it is one of understanding the organization itself.”
― Kristian Williams, Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime

“So I think that it’s completely realistic and rational to work within structures to which you are opposed, because by doing so you can help to move to a situation where then you can challenge those structures.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism

“It casts internal violence as a sign of the group’s diversity, the assumption being that even minor differences will result in bloodshed and thus that the tolerance for violence is a sign of inclusivity. More likely, of course, is that the threat of violence comes to pervade the whole atmosphere of the organization, shaping every interaction and producing a culture of bullying.155”
― Kristian Williams, Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime