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“On behalf of the trade unions, I claim the right to handle revolutionary and post-revolutionary economic tasks because the organization of production is the true calling of the workers. On the other hand, logic dictates that the communes, administrative agencies, their technical and social services should handle distribution of goods; interpreting the wishes of men in social terms, organizing life in all its manifestations.”
  — Pierre Besnard in Anarcho-Syndicalism and Anarchism