While Preaching Against Every Kind Of Government,

Anarchists Generally Make Use If The Word "state" To Mean All The Collection Of Institutions, Political, Legislative, Judicial, Military, Financial, Etc., By Means Of Which Management Of Their Own Affairs, The Guidance Of Their Personal Conduct, And The Care Of Ensuring Their Own Safety Are Taken From The People And Confided To Certain Individuals, And These, Whether By Usurpation Or Delegation, Are Invested With The Right To Make Laws Over And For All, And To Constrain The Public To Respect Them, Making Use Of The Collective Force Of The Community To This End.

Anarchists Are Opposed To Violence; Everyone Knows That. The Main Plank Of Anarchism Is The Removal Of Violence From Human Relations. It Is Life Based On Freedom Of The Individual, Without The Intervention Of The Gendarme. For This Reason We Are The Enemies Of Capitalism Which Depends On The Protection Of The Gendarme To Oblige Workers To Allow Themselves To Be Exploited--or Even To Remain Idle And Go Hungry When It Is Not In The Interest Of The Bosses To Exploit Them. We Are Therefore Enemies Of The State Which Is The Coercive Violent Organization Of Society.

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.

While Preaching Against Every Kind Of Government, And Demanding Complete Freedom, We Must Support All Struggles For Partial Freedom, Because We Are Convinced That One Learns Through Struggle.

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.