It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another. - Mikhail Bakunin

A country bent on conquest is necessarily a country internally enslaved.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.

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.