Experience Through Freedom Is The Only Means

Experience Through Freedom Is The Only Means To Arrive At The Truth And The Best Solutions; And There Is No Freedom If There Is Not The Freedom To Be Wrong.

The Basic Function Of The Government Everywhere In All Times, Whatever Title It Adopts And Whatever Its Origin And Organisation May Be, Is Always That Of Oppressing And Exploiting The Masses, Of Defending The Oppressors And The Exploiters: And It's Principal, Characteristic And Indispensable Instruments Are The Police Agent And The Tax-collector, The Soldier And The Gaoler - To Whom Must Be Invariably Added The Trader In Lies, Be He Priest Of Schoolmaster, Remunerated Or Protected By The Government To Enslave Minds And Make Them Docilely Accept The Yoke.

We Anarchists Do Not Want To Emancipate The People; We Want The People To Emancipate Themselves.

In The Anarchist Milieu, Communism, Individualism, Collectivism, Mutualism And All The Intermediate And Eclectic Programmes Are Simply The Ways Considered Best For Achieving Freedom And Solidarity In Economic Life; The Ways Believed To Correspond More Closely With Justice And Freedom For The Distribution Of The Means Of Production And The Products Of Labour Among Men. Bakunin Was An Anarchist, And He Was A Collectivist, An Outspoken Enemy Of Communism Because He Saw In It The Negation Of Freedom And, Therefore, Of Human Dignity.

For Anarchy To Succeed Or Simply To Advance Towards Its Success It Must Be Conceived Not Only As A Lighthouse Which Illuminates And Attracts, But As Something Possible And Attainable, Not In Centuries To Come, But In A Relatively Short Time And Without Relying On Miracles.