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Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.

— Errico Malatesta Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)

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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority.

Anarchy (1891)

Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.

If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.

I think the question is not about "communists" and "individualists", but rather about anarchists and non-anarchists.

Note to the article 'Individualism and Anarchism' by Adams (1924)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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