"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.“


-Mikhail Bakunin

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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

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