“Humanity isn’t craving hard toil ten hours of every twenty-four, but rather leisure to grow and expand, and for every two hours labor full two hours’ results.”
“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.”
“Many really sincere and radical people are as yet puzzled by the position the anarchists take, namely: The abolition of all governments.”
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A Martyr – The Alarm (1885)
“The name of this man? Louis Riel. His crime? He called out his brethren, the Canadian half-breeds, to arms; he has unfurled the sacred standard of human freedom and independence.”
“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact becomes a libertarian communist.”
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Why War? – The Blast (1916)
“The patriotic aberration that, though it is murder to kill when you are dressed in citizen’s clothes, it is heroic and glorious to slaughter wholesale when you put on a soldier’s uniform.”
“…we openly declare ourselves determined opponents of all nationalistic sectionalism or patriotism, and the militarism preached and supported by our one enemy, the Capitalist Class.”
Here I’ve collected links to several texts by Sicilian anarchist Alfredo Maria Bonanno, originally translated into English from the Italian and published by his Scottish anarchist comrade Jean Weir as separate pamphlets or booklets, but now presented together in one convenient location.
“There is a quite serious revolutionary movement among the peasants in northern Mexico, and the republican government is unable to master it.”
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The Black Flag – The Alarm (1884)
“He pointed to the black flag and said this is the first time that emblem of hunger and starvation has been unfurled on American soil. It represents that these people have begun to reach the condition of starvation of the older countries.”
