We Are Materialists And Atheists, And We

People’s State, Is A Yoke, On The One Hand Giving Rise To Despotism And On The Other To Slavery. They Say That Such A Yoke – Dictatorship Is A Transitional Step Towards Achieving Full Freedom For The People: Anarchism Or Freedom Is The Aim, While State And Dictatorship Is The Means, And So, In Order To Free The Masses Of People, They Have First To Be Enslaved!

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.

There Are But Three Ways For The Populace To Escape Its Wretched Lot. The First Two Are By The Routes Of The Wine-shop Or The Church; The Third Is By That Of The Social Revolution.

If There Is A State, There Must Be Domination Of One Class By Another And, As A Result, Slavery; The State Without Slavery Is Unthinkable - And This Is Why We Are The Enemies Of The State.

Idealism Is The Despot Of Thought, Just As Politics Is The Despot Of Will.