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Governments can be democratic or not, more or less corrupt, but they will still pursue the same basic goals, and they will still be controlled by an elite. Government by its very nature concentrates power and excludes people from making decisions over their own lives.

Peter Gelderloos

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Peter Gelderloos (born 1982) is an anarchist and author from Virginia (United States).

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