“It is useless for the ruling class to stand on the shore of discontent and attempt to force this tide back to its depths of poverty, for it swells up from the hearts of the people.”
Author: historyiswhat
“We ask our friends: if it were a matter of liberating Trieste, would they go if the only way of doing so would be enlisting under the King’s colors or under Imbriani’s?”
“…for the founding of free peasant communes, familiarizing the working rural masses with true communist life…”
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Prison Song – Louise Michel (1898)
“In the struggles to come, one will not find such generous scruples any more, because with each popular defeat, the crowd is bled like the beasts of the slaughterhouse; what one will find, will be implacable duty.”
“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.”
