"At the basis of Proudhon's economic theory we find two essential ideas, that of value and that of exchange. These two ideas are only of interest in the regime of individual property."
"The nature of a species can be changed completely as a result of the modifications resulting from the passage through a series of environments."
"Bakunin was unquestionably inferior to Marx as a political economist. His economics are Marxist, and he subscribed enthusiastically to Marx's theory of surplus value and dissection of the capitalist system."
"It is important not to confuse federalism as it is understood by the Paris Commune with the so-called federalism which exists in Switzerland and in the United States of America."
"The demand for equality is nothing other than the demand: equal rights for all!"
"True organisation like true liberty belongs to the future -- and the Socialist Commonwealth, or, as I have termed it elsewhere, the Anarchist Republic."
"The anarchist teaching prescribes no method of struggle and rejects none which is in harmony with self-determination and free will."
"Socialists, so called, have degraded Marx's declaration of a political class struggle to mean something which it never did and never can mean, namely, parliamentary action."
"Federalism is above all the negation of the nation and the state."
"Man as we know him, in the highest actual stage of development, loves learning, yearns alter truth, and identifies his personal happiness with the realization and maintenance of his ideals."
"Proudhon was an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist communist, a federalist communist. Was he a communist without knowing it? No, he suspected it, and he said it, at least once."
"No serious-minded man would venture to predict exactly how the Revolution, the indispensable condition for social renovation, will come about."
"The complete transformation of everyone's living conditions can never be achieved on the path of slow development, through which at most improvements within a social system are possible."
"Out of the class or property social system there cannot emerge a "representation" which signifies an honest attempt to secure just exposition of principles and expressions of antagonistic interests."
"Federalism is socialist, and for it solidarity is inseparable from liberty."
"Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong."
"The freedom of everyone, and thereby the freedom of each individual, requires community in socialism."
