4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- People : ---------------------------------- Author : Errico Malatesta : Revolution in Practice Text : ---------------------------------- The authoritarian parties have a specific program and want to impose it by force; therefore they aspire to seizing the power, regardless of whether legally or illegally, and transforming society their way, through a new legislation. This explains why they are revolutionary in words and often also in intentions, but they hesitate to make a revolution when the opportunities arise; they are not sure of the acquiescence, even passive, of the majority, they do not have sufficient military force to have their orders carried out over the whole territory, they lack devoted people with skills in all the countless branches of social activity... therefore they are always forced to postpone action, until they are almost reluctantly pushed to the government by the popular uprising. However, once in power, they would like to stay there indefinitely, therefore they try to slow down, divert, stop the revolution that raised them. From : Section 2. Events : ---------------------------------- 4 -- Added : November 25, 2020 4 -- Updated : July 07, 2022 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/