Alt-text:
A posterized image of Mikhail Bakunin with an overlaid edited quote which reads, "Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure [to vote blue no matter who!!]"
LOL/cry.
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
And some more Bakunin quotes on imbalance of power / power over others / oppression / statism, for more context...
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society.
Power corrupts those who exercise it as much as those who are forced to obey it.
The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle.
"Class", "power", "state", are three inseparable terms, one of which presupposes the other two.
The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
And my fave:
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
/autism
