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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.

— Errico Malatesta Note to the article 'Individualism and Anarchism' by Adams (1924)

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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.

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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)

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