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“My target is what most libertarians have in common — with each other, and with their ostensible enemies. Libertarians serve the state all the better because they declaim against it. At bottom, they want what it wants. But you can’t want what the state wants without wanting the state, for what the state wants is the conditions in which it flourishes.”

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The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)

“There is no need at present to produce new definitions of anarchism — it would be hard to improve on those long since devised by various eminent dead foreigners. Nor need we linger over the familiar hyphenated anarchisms, communist- and individualist- and so forth; the textbooks cover all that. More to the point is why we are no closer to anarchy today than were Godwin and Proudhon and Kropotkin and Goldman in their times.”

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Anarchism And Other Impediments To Anarchy (1985)

“As for "decadence," that is an eminently bourgeois swear-word for people perceived to be having more fun than you are.”

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Source: Anarchy after Leftism (1997), Chapter 1: Murray Bookchin, Grumpy Old Man