"I am a passionate seeker after Truth and a not less passionate enemy of the malignant fictions used by the "Party of Order", the official representa… - Mikhail Bakunin

Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the so-called will of the people, as supposedly expressed by their alleged representatives in mock popular assemblies, incorporates the two principal and necessary conditions for the progress of capitalism: state centralization, and the actual submission of the sovereign people to the intellectual governing minority, who, while claiming to represent the people, unfailingly exploits them.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Tres elementos o, si queréis, tres principios fundamentales, constituyen las condiciones esenciales de todo desenvolvimiento humano, tanto colectivo como individual, en la historia: 1º la animalidad humana; 2º el pensamiento, y 3º la rebeldía.