"If you consider these worthy electors as unable to look after their own interests themselves, how is it that they know how to choose for themselves the shepherds who must guide them? And how will they be able to solve this problem of social alchemy, of producing the election of a genius from the votes of a mass of fools?"
Errico Malatesta,
anarcho-communist (1853 ‐ 1932)
Influential Italian anarchist theorist