Nestor Makhno (November 8, 1888 - July 25, 1934) on Anarchism and Revolution(published by RevoltSource) |
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Ukrainian, Anarchist Revolutionary, Abolisher of Concentration Camps, and the Commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War
: A Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War. Makhno was the namesake of the Makhnovshchina (loosely translated as "Makhno movement"), a predominantly peasant phenomenon that grew into a mass social movement. It was initially centered around Makhno's hometown Huliaipole but over the course of the Ukrainian Civil War came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Freed from his heavenly and earthly deities, as well as from their moral and social prescriptions, man speaks out against and offers actual opposition to man's exploitation of his fellow man and perversion of his nature, which remains invariably committed to the onward march towards completion and perfection. This rebel, having become conscious of himself and of the circumstances of his oppressed and degraded brethren, thereafter gives expression to his heart and to his reason: he becomes a revolutionary anarchist, the only individual capable of thirsting after freedom, completion and perfection for himself and for the human race, as he tramples underfoot the slavery and social idiocy which has, historically, been embodied by violence -- the State. Against that murderer and that organized bandit, the free man in turn organizes along with his fellows, so as to strengthen and espouse a genuinely communist policy in all the common gains made along the road of creation, which is at once grandiose and painful.”
Source: "The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 70. "The ABC of the Revolutionary Anarchist," Probuzdeniye, No. 18, Jan. 1931, pp. 57-63, and no. 19-20, Feb.-March 1932, pp. 16-20.
: "The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 70. "The ABC of the Revolutionary Anarchist," Probuzdeniye, No. 18, Jan. 1931, pp. 57-63, and no. 19-20, Feb.-March 1932, pp. 16-20.
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