“We anarchists want Cuba’s freedom, just as we want that of all peoples: we want true freedom, though. And for this we have fought and will continue to fight.”
Category: Errico Malatesta
“…many see in ‘foreigners’ the cause of economic distress… This is evidently a stupid error…”
“In short, we need to grapple with men as they are, events as they emerge and reap maximum possible advantage for the success of our ideas.”
“I was always at odds with the socialists, because they said we shouldn’t rush things, we should let time do its work for the Revolution…”
“…colonialism and war, the building blocks used to construct the theory of revolutionary defeatism, are very much still with us.”
“The whole Italian situation has led up to the dictatorship, has determined the different phases of Fascism. To believe that all that has been the product of the will and the intelligence of one man is infantile.”
“… the soldier is always a soldier, obliged to show up when called and fight for the purpose which the government wants to make him fight for.”
“They protest now against the domineering spirit of the Germans, but as a matter of fact they are all ‘Germans.'”
“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?”
“What could be so important that revolutionaries would join the most reactionary elements in their respective countries, free thinkers would fraternise with priests, socialists and trade unionists would put class antagonisms on hold, anti-militarists would demand that a government call the citizens to arms and force them to go to war, anarchists would collaborate with the State?”
