God
and the State
by Michael Bakunin
Marxism,
Freedom and the State
by Michael Bakunin
Listen,
Marxist!
by Murray Bookchin
Social
Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
by Murray Bookchin
The
Bolsheviks and Workers Control
by Maurice Brinton
Notes
on Anarchism
by Noam Chomsky
Towards
a Fresh Revolution
by The Friends of Durruti
Enquiry
Concerning Political Justice
by William Godwin
Anarchism:
What it Really Stands For
by Emma Goldman
Mutual
Aid: A Factor of Evolution
by Peter Kropotkin
The
State: Its Historic Role
by Peter Kropotkin
An
Appeal to the Young
by Peter Kropotkin
Malatesta
on Syndicalism
by Errico Maletesta
Malatesta
on the Platform
by Errico Malestesta
“On
Workers’ Councils”
Paul Mattick interviewed by J.J. Lebel
The
Political Philosophy of Bakunin
by G.P. Maximoff (ed.)
News
From Nowhere
by William Morris
Libertarian
Communism
by Isaac Puente
Anarcho-Syndicalism
by Rudolf Rocker
The
Life and Work of Rudolf Rocker
by Rudolf Rocker
After
the Revolution
by Diego Abad de Santillan
The
Soul of Man Under Socialism
by Oscar Wilde
The
Italian Factory Occupations of 1920
by Tom Wetzel |
In 1917 the Russian workers created organs
(Factory Committees and Soviets) that might have ensured
the management of society by the workers themselves. But
the soviets passed into the hands of Bolshevik functionaries.
A state apparatus, separate from the masses, was rapidly
reconstituted. The Russian workers did not succeed in
creating new institutions through which they would have
managed both industry and social life. This task was therefore
taken over by someone else, by a group whose specific
task it became. The bureaucracy organised the work process
in a country of whose political institutions it was also
master.
From: The
Bolsheviks and Workers Control
by Maurice Brinton |
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is
either one already in existence, or a scheme that could
be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is
exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and
any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong
and foolish. The true criterion of the practical, therefore,
is not whether the latter can keep intact the wrong or
foolish; rather is it whether the scheme has vitality
enough to leave the stagnant waters of the old, and build,
as well as sustain, new life.
From: Anarchism:
What it Really Stands For
by Emma Goldman |
Lastly, all of you who possess knowledge,
talent, capacity, industry, if you have a spark of sympathy
in your nature, come, you and your companions, come and
place your services at the disposal of those who most
need them. And remember, if you do come, that you come
not as masters, but as comrades in the struggle; that
you come not to govern but to gain strength for yourselves
in a new life which sweeps upward to the conquest of the
future; that you come less to teach than to grasp the
aspirations of the many; to divine them, to give them
shape, and then to work, without rest and without haste,
with all the fire of youth and all the judgment of age,
to realize them in actual life. Then and then only will
you lead a complete, a noble, a rational existence. Then
you will see that your every effort on this path bears
with it fruit in abundance, and this sublime harmony once
established between your actions and the dictates of your
conscience will give you powers you never dreamt lay dormant
in yourselves.
From: An
Appeal to the Young
by Peter Kropotkin |
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