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“Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.” quote by Colin Ward — Download Open image

““Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.””

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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed…

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Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and…

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The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a…

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Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

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Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

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The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public…

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The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.

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The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian…

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I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered…

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In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

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Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the…

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partly with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. As to truth, justice, and fidelity, who have been their brave exponents and daring proclaimers? Nearly always…

“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;…

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“An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.”

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Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

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And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be…

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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to…

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Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to…

Errico Malatesta

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

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We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore…

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