“It was demonstrated during the trial that all safety requirements were entirely ignored by the bosses. The owners of the factory were concerned solely with the question of profits.”
Category: Alexander Berkman
“You want to send us to Zion? We do not want to go…”
“In other words, Kropotkin’s emotions for France lead him to sustain the schemes of Czarism.”
“Life must never become a habit, you said. It must be a triumph, it must be a consecration.”
“My book, in which are collected my essays on AntiMilitarism, Communism, and other Radicalism, has been prohibited and many copies seized by the Government, but the cunning publisher secretly sold 1,500 copies before the policemen came.”
“We oppose conscription because we are internationalists, anti-militarists, and opposed to all wars waged by capitalistic governments. We will fight for what we choose to fight for; we will never fight simply because we are ordered to fight.”
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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 have no sympathy whatever with the ‘libertarians’ – be they Socialists, Anarchists or what not – whose philosophic internationalism somersaults into rankest chauvinism the moment it is put to the practical test.”
