Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.

I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."

We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.