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Anarchists look to a world and a society in which real decision-making involves everyone who lives in it — a mass commune — not a few discipline freaks pulling the strings in a so-called “proletarian dictatorship.” Any and all dictatorship is bad, it has no deeming social features.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Anarchism and the Black Revolution (1993)

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