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Mikhail Bakunin

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

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Bakunin is saying that true political freedom cannot exist if people do not have equal economic opportunities, because without economic fairness, political rights are meaningless. He emphasizes that workers see through such false freedoms and reject any form of deceit that pretends to offer real liberty.

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