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When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick".
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The phrase is widely, though incorrectly, attributed to
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Index

political metaphor
Mikhail Bakunin
Statism and Anarchy
dictatorship of the proletariat
Noam Chomsky
Doublespeak
Euphemism
The Essential Chomsky
ISBN
978-1-59558-566-0
Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
ISBN
978-1-904859-16-1
Categories
Anarchist theory
Mikhail Bakunin
Political metaphors

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