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Nestor Makhno Quotes

1888–1934 Ukraine

Nestor Ivanovych Makhno (7 November 1888-25 July 1934) was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War. He established the Makhnovshchina (loosely translated as "Makhno movement"), a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish anarchist communism in the country between 1918 and 1921.

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Anarchism — a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity.

I hope that you’ll do better than us when the time comes. Makhno has never refused a fight; if I’m still alive when your revolution begins, I’ll be one fighter among many.

Anarchism is as revolutionary, as diverse, and as sublime in every facet as is human life itself.

Man is only free if he is prepared to kill every hangman and every power magnate if they do not wish to stop their shameful tasks.

“Liberation” under the management of any government or political set-up — what’s that got to do with freedom?

I would still call on you, reader and brother, to take up the struggle for the ideal anarchism, for only if you fight for this ideal and uphold it will you understand it properly.

Beat the Reds until they turn white, beat the Whites until they turn red.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nestor Makhno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.