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(Britannicas citation of anarchism)
The State organization, having always been, both in ancient and modern history the instrument for establishing monopolies in favor of the ruling minorities, cannot be made to work for the destruction of these monopolies.

State capitalism would only increase the powers of bureaucracy and capitalism.

go among the people and the question (of what to do) will solve itself.
..with all the fire of youth and all the judgement of age..(abt working for revolution)

(local specialised forces, collaboration, brain for action, unions etc) To reject this collaboration and to turn everything over to the genius of party dictators is to destroy the independent centers of our life, the trade unions and the local cooperative organizations, by changing them into bureaucratic organs of the party

when a government which undertakes to furnish every citizen with a lamp and even the match to light it, and then cannot do it even with a limitless number of officials, —that government becomes a nuisance.

(this chalet is a good summary of why USSR failed)
The evils natural to state communism have been increased ten-fold under the pretext that all our misery is due to foreign intervention.
All efforts to reunite under a central control the naturally separate parts of the Russian Empire are predestined to failure.
A council of workers ceases to be free and of any use when liberty of the press no longer exists,..

we know also that this idea of dictatorship is never anything more than a sickly product of governmental fetish-worship..
It is a compromise made in advance between the socialistic aspirations of the masses and the desires of the middle class.

They understand that it is impossible for a people in insurrection to give themselves, by means of elec-tions, any government but one that represents the past.
the dictatorship of an individual or of a party (at bottom the very same thing) has been finally con-demned. We know that revolution and government are incompatible. One must destroy the other no matter what name is given

But society,after having done everything it could to make an enemy of him,having inoculated him with the vices of the prison,rejects him.He is condemned to become a "repeater."
The most forward-looking and intelligent minds of our time proclaim that society as a whole is responsible for every anti-social act committed.We have our part in the glory of our heroes and geniuses;we also share in the acts of our assassins