Alexander Berkman
What Is Communist Anarchism?
Paul Avrich Intro.
(NY: Dover Publications, 1972)

"Labor's discontent is not to be choked down with an extra piece of 
bread, even if it be buttered. That is why there is more conscious
and active revolt in the industrial centers of better-situated Europe
than in backward Asia and Africa. The spirit of man forever yearns
for greater comfort and freedom, and it is the masses who are 
the truest bearers of this incentive to further advancement. The hope
of modern plutocracy to forestall revolution by throwing
a fatter bone to the toiler now and then is illusory and baseless." (1928) (p. 221)

[Why this quote is wrong:
As Berkman was publishing the above, Chiang Kai-shek was just finishing massacring
thousands of communist workers in China and Mao was just publishing his famous
investigations of conditions in the countryside. In the following years, the major
explosions took place in Africa and Asia, not Europe. Contrary to anarchists,
Germany went fascist, not anarchist.

Meanwhile, strikes are almost non-existent in the united $tates. Revolutions did
not happen in Europe while they did happen in Asia and Africa, so throwing that
"fatter bone" did forestall revolution.]