"Thus in Italy, as everywhere else, there exist a united and invisible political world of predators, sucking the country dry in the name of the state and, for the greater benefit of the latter, reducing the former to an extreme degree of poverty and desperation." 1873 Bakunin

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"Thus it is unquestionable that the Slaves, on their own initiative, never formed a state. They did not do so because they were never a conquering nation. Only conquering peoples create states, and they create them purely for their own benefit, at the expense of the peoples they have subjugated."