A Constituent Assembly is the means used by the privileged classes, when a dictatorship is not possible, either to prevent a #revolution, or, when a revolution has already broken out, to stop its progress with the excuse of legalizing it, and to take back as much as possible of the gains that the #people had made during the #insurrectional period.

– Errico #Malatesta, Against the Constituent Assembly as against the #Dictatorship, 1930

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-against-the-constituent-assembly-as-against-the-dictatorship
#quote #quotes #classwar