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True, parliamentarism is better than despotism: but only if it represents a concession granted by the despot for fear of worse. Given a choice between a parliamentarism, embraced and boasted, and a despotism forcibly thrust upon minds that cry out for redemption, despotism is a thousand times better
malatesta my beloved
The Socialists and the Elections: A Letter from E. Malatesta. London, 2 February 1897.
Can be found in Davide Turcato's "The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader", pg. 166.