“We knew of the heartlessness and falsity of the bourgeois class, but to think that the new communist ruling class would be even…
“We knew of the heartlessness and falsity of the bourgeois class, but to think that the new communist ruling class would be even worse than the bourgeoisie, at that moment was absolutely impossible for us to imagine. We really thought that it was a temporary sickness due to the danger they were in, that once that danger had disappeared their reactionary methods would also disappear. And how wrong we were! There must be something in human nature for men to want power over other men so madly. And the truth is that power creates tyrants. I am ever more convinced of that. So the problem of liberty must be mostly: never put power over us in the hands of any human being. And if anyone tries to grab it against our will, fight the prospective tyrants to death!”— Enrico Arrigoni (anarchist participant in the Spartacist Uprising of 1919 and the Spanish civil war reflecting on the Bolshevik “revolution”)