Marx is an authoritarian and centralising communist. He wants what we want, the complete triumph of economic and social equality, but he wants it… through State power, through the dictatorship of a very strong and, so to say, despotic provisional government, that is by the negation of liberty. His economic ideal is the State as sole owner of the land and of all kinds of capital, cultivating the land under the management of State engineers, and controlling all industrial and commercial associations with State capital. We want the same triumph of economic and social equality through the abolition of the State and of all that passes by the name of law… We want the reconstruction of society and the unification of mankind to be achieved, not from above downwards (top-down) by any sort of authority, nor by socialist officials, engineers, and either accredited men of learning—but from below upwards (bottom-up), by the free federation of all kinds of workers’ associations liberated from the yoke of the State. – Mikhail Bakunin