Revolutionary Militarism

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[Anonymous Anarchist writer] Armed struggle is likely to be part of any social insurrection, but this does not require the creation of a military force. Such a formation could even be considered as a sign that the far more significant movement of social subversion is weakening, that the transformation of social relationships has begun to stagnate.

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Precisely the same thing would happen to Anarchists were they to size power. Not only would they not "hasten the march towards the realization of Anarchism," they would sink into the swamp of corruption and demoralization inherent in all power. Namely they would cling to power and forget their Anarchism.

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The "Canadians" were a spirited and trained outfit from the very beginning; reflecting completely what would soon be the new army, as compared with the militia of the first days, and with the Lincolns of Jarama. It even had a bugler who awakened the men in the morning, summoned them to breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and put them appropriately to bed at night. In the sand-blown olive groves of Azaila, called "Windy Alley" by the Volunteers, the Lincoln survivors of Quinto and Belchite listened with something akin to horror to this bugle. And on the second morning of their arrival, the Canadians were somewhat late in rising, since these same intrepid Lincoln men (who had the stormed the heights of Purburell and smashed the fortress of Belchite) had stolen their bugle. That instrument, so the story goes, was placed beneath the tires of the Lincoln food-truck and flattened beyond repair.

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After we have collected ourselves into a great, universal family, brothers, we will go further in the fight against darkness. On to the universal human ideal! We will live as brothers, enslaving no one. The brute force of the enemy will be answered with the force by our revolutionary army. If our enemies do not agree with our ideal, we reply by building our new life based on individual responsibility. Only hardened criminals who belong to the enemy will not wish to tread the road to a new life with fruitful activity. They will try to fight us in order to regain their power. They must die.

Long live the ideal of universal human harmony, and man's fight towards it!

Long live the ideal of anarchist society!

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Peasants, workers and you, the working intelligentsia! Support the rebirth and expansion of the revolution as the most reliable weapon in the fight against Capital and the State! Support the creation and strengthening of a free society of workers in your life-time, our common objective! You must organize yourselves, from partizan style revolutionary combat detachments and battalions from among your ranks, then rise up, set upon the Hetman and the Austro-German emperors -- those who sent their savage counter-revolutionary armies against us -- and at all costs defeat these executioners of the revolution and of freedom...!

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Take away the governmental violence and ours would have no reason to exist.

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We know the drawbacks to militarization. The system does not fit in with our temperament, any more than it does with any of us who have ever had a proper understanding of freedom.

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...it would be quite impossible to write about the Spanish war from a purely military angle. It was above all things a political war.

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...it is possible to kill the State without killing a single one of its members; and war gives no right which is not necessary to the gaining of its object.

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It was to my mind a fine oath that was taken by the soldiers of Fabius, who swore, not to conquer or die, but to come back victorious -- and kept their oath.

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[Judge Lieutenant Colonel Moyano] "And why were you shooting?"

[Paulino Orlando Scarfó] "We wanted to defend ourselves in that we knew that if we fell into police hands we would face martial law."

"If you were honest men, why would you have had any such fear?"

"Because we knew whom we were dealing with."

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The Tigris river channel was narrow, but the society was encountered on the far shore could not have been more different from the KRG: the spirit of a social and political revolution was in the air. As we disembarked, we were greeted by the Asayish, or civilian security forces of the revolution. The Asayish reject the label police, since police serve the state whereas they serve society.

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March 12, 2020 : Revolutionary Militarism -- Added.

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