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["March of the Anarchists," song by the Novosyolov unit:]
We sing of the uncounted, forgotten by fate,
Tortured in prisons, killed on the block.
They fought for truth, they fought for you,
And fell in heroic, inequitable struggle.
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[Anonymous Anarcho-Individualist] I go into banks to withdraw with the pistol, while others withdrawing using check books. It's all a matter of procedure.
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...the triumph of humanity can be realized only through the destruction of the States.
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The State is very clearly our enemy; if we do not destroy it first, it will destroy us.
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This is the situation, my darling. Take it or leave it. But before you decide, go to Spain and see everything for yourself.
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I fear that it will take more than one revolution before it will be possible for Anarchism to emerge in all its beauty and all its humanity.
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However the Spanish revolution will end it has already given us marvelous material to enhance the logic of our ideas. And it should also give us greater courage to go on and on so long as there is a breath of life in us.
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I admit I was a bit surprised when you write that "the very name of your movement, 'the Anarchists', frightens people away." My sweet Ethel, since when does one join a movement when it is already a success?
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Bakunin has said, 'Revolution is the most exciting and enjoyable endeavor! Would you rather linger on in your life by curling under the evil power, or honestly risk your life fighting against the devil with no turning back!' How exciting and courageous! I hope our friends will join us with fiery spirit to fulfill the most exciting and the most enjoyable endeavor of revolution. Let us march together to the road of happiness!
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...and when France once more bristles with communes in revolt, the people are not likely to give themselves a government and expect that government to initiate revolutionary measures. When they have rid themselves of the parasites who devour them, they will take possession of all social wealth to share according to the principles of anarchist communism. And when they have entirely abolished property government, and the state, they will form themselves freely according to the necessities indicated by life itself. Breaking it chains, overthrowing its idols, humanity will march onward to a better future, knowing neither masters nor slaves, keeping its veneration for the noble martyrs who bought with their blood and suffering those first attempts at emancipation which have enlightened our march toward the conquest of liberty.
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...outside of anarchism there is no such thing as revolution.
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"You're really much too polite for..."
"For what?"
"For an anarchist," she said.... "I'm disappointed. I thought you'd be dangerous and uncouth."
"I am."
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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.
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To Rebellion!
This is the cry of the anarchist revolutionary to the exploited. Rebel, destroy all government and see that it never takes root again. Power is used by those who have never really lived by the work of their hands. Government power will never let workers tread the road to freedom; it is the instrument of the lazy who want to dominate others, and it does not matter if the power is in the hand of the bourgeois, the socialists or the Bolsheviks, it is degrading. There is no government without teeth, teeth to tear any man who longs for a free and just life.
Brother; drive out power in yourself. Never let it fascinate you or your brothers. A true collective life is not built with programs or with governments but with the freedom of mankind, with its creativity and its independence.
The freedom of any individual carries within it the seed of a free and complete community without government, a free society that lives in organic and decentralized totality, united in its pursuit of the great human goal: Anarchist Communism!
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Long live the fratenal and shared hopes of all Anarchist militants that they may see the realization of that grand undertaking -- the endeavor of our movement and of the social revolution for which we struggle!
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...our efforts must in the first instance be directed to making the revolution and in such a way that it is in the direction of anarchy. We have to provoke the revolution with all the means at our disposal and act in it as anarchists, by opposing the constitution of any authoritarian regime and putting into operation as much as we can of our program. Anarchists will have to take advantage of the increased freedom that we would have won. We will have to be morally and technically prepared to realize within the limits of our numbers, those forms of social life and cooperation which they consider best and most suitable for paving the way for the future.
["The Anarchist Revolution," by Errico Malatesta.]
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I believe that we anarchists, convinced of the validity of our program, must make special efforts to acquire a predominating influence in order to be able to swing the movement towards the realization of our ideals; but we must acquire this influence by being more active and more effective than the others. Only in this way will it be worth acquiring. Today we must examine thoroughly, develop and propagate our ideas and coordinate our efforts for common action. We must act inside the popular movements to prevent them from limiting themselves to, and being corrupted by, the exclusive demand for the small improvements possible under the capitalist system, and seek to make it serve for the preparation o the complete and radical change of our society. We must work among the mass of unorganized, and possibly unorganizable, people to awaken in them the spirit of revolt and the desire and hope for a free and happy existence. We must initiate and support every possible kind of movement which tends to weaken the power of the government and of the capitalists and to raise the moral level and material conditions of the people. We must get ready and prepare, morally and materially, for the revolutionary act which has to open the way to the future.
["The Anarchist Revolution," by Errico Malatesta.]
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...I believe that anarchists must remain - and where possible, naturally, with dignity and independence - within those organizations as they are, to work within them and seek to push them forward to the best of their ability, ready to avail themselves, in critical moments of history, of the influence they may have gained, and to transform them swiftly from modest weapons of defense to powerful tools of attack.
["The Labor Movement and Anarchism," by Errico Malatesto, December 1925. Open letter addressed to the editors of El Productor, an anarchist journal published in Barcelona.]
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...I believe that anarchists must remain - and where possible, naturally, with dignity and independence - within those organizations as they are, to work within them and seek to push them forward to the best of their ability, ready to avail themselves, in critical moments of history, of the influence they may have gained, and to transform them swiftly from modest weapons of defense to powerful tools of attack.
["The Labor Movement and Anarchism," by Errico Malatesto, December 1925. Open letter addressed to the editors of El Productor, an anarchist journal published in Barcelona.]
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...all anarchists agree on this desire of overthrowing the current regimes as soon as possible: as a matter of fact, they are often the only ones who show a real wish to do so.
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...anarchism is the idea that will not die.
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In the rapacious type of capitalism existing in this country and America, such personal advantages are the result of an exercise of low cunning hardly compatible with a sense of justice; or they are based on a callous speculation in finance which neither knows nor cares what human elements are involved in the abstract movement of market prices. For the last fifty years it has been obvious to anyone with an inquiring mind that the capitalist system has reached a stage in its deveopment at which it can only continue under cover of imperial aggression -- at which it can only extend its markets behind a barrage of high explosivies.... Faith in the fundamental goodness of man; humility in the presence of natural law; reason and mutual aid -- these are the qualities that can save us. But they must be unified and vitalized by an insurrectionary passion, a flame in which all virtues are tempered and clarified, and brought to their most effective strength.
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The decision having once been made not to let oneself be imposed on any longer by the extant and palpable, little scruple was felt about revolting against the existing state or overturning the existing laws; but to sin against the idea of the state, not to submit to the idea of law, who would have dared that?
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The point of the revolution, many people told us, is not to replace one government with another, it is to end the rule of the state.
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My thoughts are murder to the State, and involuntarily go plotting against her.
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We will have no need then to seize power, because there will be no more power.
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...attack and the theory of attack -- which is the same thing for anarchists...
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The peasant utopia is the free village, untrammeled by tax collectors, labor recruiters, large landowners, officials. Ruled over, but never ruling, they also lack acquaintance with the operation of the state as a complex machinery, experiencing it only as a "cold monster." Against this hostile force, they had learned, even their traditional power holders provided but a weak shield, even though they were on occasion willing to defend them if it proved to their own interest. Thus, for the peasant, the state is a negative quantity, an evil, to be replaced in short shrift by their own "homemade" social order. That order, they believe, can run without the state; hence, peasants in rebellion are natural anarchists.
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