We, as anarchists, know that people, even the bourgeoisie, are not inherently bad; we all merely conform to our class interests. Given the right conditions, conditions of true equality and freedom, a powerful spirit of mutual aid and co-operation has been demonstrated to come to the fore in the popular masses...
How we act is related to the structure of society. When oppression and exploitation are forcibly removed by directly-democratic, horizontally-federated organizations operating under the guidance of the popular will, then the "goodness" that is in most of us comes through and flourishes as it did when the workers held the reigns in Argentina, Macedonia, Ukraine, Spain, Mexico, Manchuria, China, Iran, Cuba, France, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Algeria, and elsewhere.
--Michael Schmidt, Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism, AK Press (2013), 128.
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