The bourgeoisie says: don’t touch the state power; it is the sacred hereditary privilege of the educated classes. But the Anarchists say: don’t touch it, it is an infernal invention, a diabolical device, don’t have anything to do with it. The bourgeoisie says, don’t touch it, it’s sacred. The Anarchists say: don’t touch it, because it’s sinful. Both say: don’t touch it. But we say: don’t just touch it, take it in your hands, and set it to work in your own interests, for the abolition of private ownership and the emancipation of the working class.

Trotsky on the Marxist position on the state, Anarchists in the Russian Revolution: The Makhno Myth
(via trotskies)

IDK I feel like smashing is touching, that said I’m not exactly an anarchist so IDK

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