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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority.
Anarchy (1891)
Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
I think the question is not about "communists" and "individualists", but rather about anarchists and non-anarchists.
Note to the article 'Individualism and Anarchism' by Adams (1924)
Individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals.
What matters most is that people, all men, lose their sheepish instincts and habits that the millennial slavery inspired them, and they learn to think and act freely.
I claimed that "individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals".
Note to the article 'Individualism and Anarchism' by Adams (1924)
To conquer power one needs qualities that are not exactly those that are needed to ensure that justice and well-being will triumph in the world.
Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
Speech to International Anarchist Congress (1907)
Between man and his social environment there is a reciprocal action. Men make society what it is and society makes men what they are, and the result is therefore a kind of vicious circle.
The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader (2014)
Our first task therefore must be to persuade people.
An Anarchist Programme (1920)
The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority.
Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.
Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
However, I deny that that kind of individualists can be included among anarchists, despite their liking for calling themselves so.
Note to the article 'Individualism and Anarchism' by Adams (1924)
We have outlined under a number of headings our objectives and the ideal for which we struggle.
An Anarchist Programme (1920)
It is therefore necessary to state what are the means which in our opinion lead to our desired ends, and which we propose to adopt.
An Anarchist Programme (1920)
Theoretically "democracy" means popular government; government by all for everybody by the efforts of all.
Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
Others invent more or less complicated system of mutuality. But in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists, and which divides them into different schools.
Note to the article 'Individualism and Anarchism' by Adams (1924)
By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind...