Errico Malatesta on Authoritarianism
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“Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.”
“I think the question is not about "communists" and "individualists", but rather about anarchists and non-anarchists. And we, or at least many of us, were quite wrong in discussing a certain kind of alleged "anarchist individualism" as if it really was one of the various tendencies of anarchism, instead of fighting it as one of the many disguises of authoritarianism.”