The Anarchist Is Distinguished by His Frank and Human Selfishness Living for Himself

Even Bakunin on occasion sounded more like Raoul Vaneigem than Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as when he wrote that the anarchist is distinguished by “his frank and human selfishness, living candidly and unsententiously for himself, and knowing that by doing so in accordance with justice he serves the whole of society.”

--Bob Black, Anarchy after Leftism (Columbia, MO: Columbia Alternative Library Press, 1997), 54.