Experience Through Freedom Is The Only Means

While Preaching Against Every Kind Of Government, And Demanding Complete Freedom, We Must Support All Struggles For Partial Freedom, Because We Are Convinced That One Learns Through Struggle.

Anarchy Is A Word That Comes From The Greek, And Signifies, Strictly Speaking, "without Government": The State Of A People Without Any Constituted Authority. Before Such An Organization Had Begun To Be Considered Possible And Desirable By A Whole Class Of Thinkers, So As To Be Taken As The Aim Of A Movement (which Has Now Become One Of The Most Important Factors In Modern Social Warfare), The Word "anarchy" Was Used Universally In The Sense Of Disorder And Confusion, And It Is Still Adopted In That Sense By The Ignorant And By Adversaries Interested In Distorting The Truth.

In The Anarchist Milieu, Communism, Individualism, Collectivism, Mutualism And All The Intermediate And Eclectic Programmes Are Simply The Ways Considered Best For Achieving Freedom And Solidarity In Economic Life; The Ways Believed To Correspond More Closely With Justice And Freedom For The Distribution Of The Means Of Production And The Products Of Labour Among Men. Bakunin Was An Anarchist, And He Was A Collectivist, An Outspoken Enemy Of Communism Because He Saw In It The Negation Of Freedom And, Therefore, Of Human Dignity.

Organisation, Far From Creating Authority, Is The Only Cure For It And The Only Means Whereby Each Of Us Will Get Used To Taking An Active And Conscious Part In Collective Work, And Cease Being Passive Instruments In The Hands Of Leaders.

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 Be Exploited--or Even To Remain Idle And Go Hungry When It Is Not In The Interest Of The Bosses To Exploit Them. We Are Therefore Enemies Of The State Which Is The Coercive Violent Organization Of Society.