Letters of Blood and Fire!

"It is clear why the 'doctrinaire revolutionaries', whose objective is to overthrow existing governments and regimes so as to create their own dictatorship on their ruins, have never been and never will be enemies of the state. On the contrary, they have always been and will always be its most ardent defenders. They are enemies only of existing governments, because they want to take their place. They are enemies of existing political institutions because these preclude the possibility of their own dictatorship. At the same time, however, they are the most impassioned friends of state power, for were it not retained the revolution, having liberated the masses in earnest, would eliminate this pseudo-revolutionary minority's hope of putting a new harness on them and conferring upon them the blessings of their own governmental measures." - Mikhail Bakunin

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