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There is only one part of this article I disagree with, and it is, ironically, this quote from Bakunin:

No people will readily submit to authority, however docile they may be by nature and however accustomed they may have grown to obeying it.

First of all, it doesn't make sense. If a people are "docile by nature" and "grown accustomed" to obedience, then why wouldn't they readily submit to authority?

Secondly, the evidence of history - especially recent history - contradicts the radical sentiment expressed by this quote. Far too many people are willing and eager to submit to the authority of the State, of experts, and of the mass media.