The whole people will govern, and there will be no governed. If a man rules himself, he does not do so on this principle, for he is after all himself and no other. Then there will be no government and no state, but if there is a state, there will be both governors and slaves. This dilemma is simply solved in the Marxists' theory. This is democratic twaddle, political drivel.
Election is a political form present in the smallest Russian commune and artel.
With collective ownership the so-called people's will vanishes, to make way for the real will of the cooperative. They will no longer represent the people, but themselves and their pretensions to people's government. Anyone who can doubt this knows nothing of the nature of men. If Mr Bakunin only knew something about the position of a manager in a workers' cooperative factory, all his dreams of domination would go to the devil. He should have asked himself what form the administrative function can take on the basis of this workers' state, if he wants to call it that.