Paternalism and centralism, the bane of capitalist as well as socialist politics, are for me the permanent enemy of democracy. (Michael Moorcock)

Paternalism and centralism, the bane of capitalist as well as socialist politics, are for me the permanent enemy of democracy.

Michael Moorcock

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