The seeds of an ungovernable revolutionary culture

This is a densely written piece (yeah, I know, I’m one to talk!), but well worth the effort:

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/silas-crane-authoritarianism-and-self-creation

Our most durable chains are those we have forged ourselves. For every latent threat, for every overt constraint, for every subtly coerced act of compliance, there are a thousand unnoticed—and unrecognized—acts of voluntary submission.  

And to submit to a democratically-crafted bureaucratic arrangement is no less an act of self-denial as to fall prostrate before a scepter-wielding despot.