The People's Stick

The People's Stick is a political metaphor by 19th-century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, and used in his 1873 work Statism and Anarchy.

The full quote states: When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick".

The phrase is widely cited by Noam Chomsky;[1] other scholars have also noted the phrase as emblematic of the inherent oppressiveness of a state power, even in a nominally socialist government.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Noam Chomsky (13 December 2013). The Essential Chomsky. New Press. pp. 510–. ISBN 978-1-59558-566-0.
  2. ↑ Lucien Van der Walt; Michael Schmidt (2009). Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. AK Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-904859-16-1.
  3. ↑ Heinz Duthel (15 August 2013). Anarchism - II: Anarchy comes from the Greek words meaning "contrary to authority". Books on Demand. pp. 543–. ISBN 978-3-8482-2192-9.
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