The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.
:No manuscrito "My Two Years in Russia" "My Disillusionment with Russia" http://www.ditext.com/goldman/russia/russia.html (1923), posteriormente em "My Further Disillusionment with Russia" http://www.panarchy.org/goldman/russia.1924.html (1924) e finalmente em um único volume incluindo as duas obras em (1925).