God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of … - Mikhail Bakunin

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Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

Mikhail Bakunin

God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.

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In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

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Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

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The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.

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