Errico Malatesta
Italian anarchist-communist and critic of syndicalism who spent much of his time in exile and was repeatedly imprisoned.
Syndicalism and Anarchism
The relationship between the labour movement and the progressive parties is an old and worn theme.
Further thoughts on Revolution in practice
My latest article on this topic drew the attention of many comradesand procured me numerous questions and remarks.
Perhaps I was not clear enough; perhaps I also disturbed themental habits of some, who love to rest on traditional formulas morethan tormenting their brain, and are bothered by anything that forcesthem to think.
Revolution in practice
At the meeting held in Bienne (Switzerland) on the fiftieth anniversary of the Saint Imier Congress, comrade Bertoni and I expressed some ideas that comrade Colomer did not like. So much so that he wrote on the Paris Libertaire that he is sure those ideas contrast the most lively tendencies of the contemporary anarchist movement. Had the comrades of Germany, Spain, Russia, America, etc.
Anarchist Propaganda
IT MUST BE ADMITTED THAT WE ANARCHISTS, IN OUTLINING what we would like the future society to be a society without bosses and without gendarmes have, in general, made everything look a bit too easy.
The anarchists in the present time
A section of our movement is eagerly discussing about the practicalproblems that the revolution will have to solve.
This is good news and a good omen, even if the solutions proposedso far are neither abundant nor satisfactory.
Note to the article "Individualism and Anarchism" by Adamas
Adamas' reply to my article in n. 13 shows that I did not express my thought well, and induces me to add some clarifications.
I claimed that "individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals".
Neither Democrats, nor Dictators: Anarchists
Theoretically 'democracy' means popular government; government by all for everybody by the efforts of all. In a democracy the people must be able to say what they want, to nominate the executors of their wishes, to monitor their performance and remove them when they see fit.
Majorities and Minorities
We do not recognize the right of the majority to impose the law on the minority, even if the will of the majority in somewhat complicated issues could really be ascertained. The fact of having the majority on one's side does not in any way prove that one must be right.
The Revolutionary "Haste"
Let us deal again with G. Valenti's article republished by the ReggioEmilia newspaper Giustizia.
Democracy and Anarchy
This article first appeared in Malatesta's journal Pensiero e Volontà in March 1924. This translation by Gillian Fleming was published in The Anarchist Revolution edited by Vernon Richards, Freedom Press 1995.
