Author: historyiswhat

“To safeguard their power to exploit the peoples — black, white, or yellow — they were quite prepared to make a slaughter-house of Europe.”

“All this we do not need. We are Anarchists.”

“Conscription is the negation of defence, for armed peace presupposes war and is offensive.”

“I returned and found my people hurting also. Hurt by the same White government I was fighting for.”

“As the earliest Anarchist criticisms of Zionism said — a new nationalism could only create a State and this would become more reactionary, as witness the decline of Italian nationalism into fascism.”

“In the colonies of the British Empire fascism is already established.”

“The future belongs to us and to our social philosophy. For it is the only social ideal that teaches independent thinking and direct participation of the workers in their economic struggle.”

“…having studied the correspondence — I consider the Arabs’ case to be indisputable, the alternative proposition, which is that our promises were ambiguous, is hardly to our credit.”

“‘Finding is keeping’ is a good motto for conquistadores and imperialists, but not, I should have thought, for Anarchists.”

“In other words, Kropotkin’s emotions for France lead him to sustain the schemes of Czarism.”