“We wish, in a word, equality — equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.”

—  Mikhail Bakunin

As quoted in The Old Order and the New (1890) by J. Morris Davidson

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