The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... men and women are not yet free.... The slavery of greed endures. Little child workers, the hope of the future, are sacrificed ...to industry. Young men are sent out by the billion to die for profits.... We must destroy industrial slavery and build industrial democracy.... The people everywhere must come into possession of the earth [second, third, and fourth ellipses in source].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »