Summons to the 4th Extraordinary Congress : Of Peasant, Worker, and Partisan DelegatesBy Nestor Makhno (1919) |
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Anarchist Leader of the Anti-Bolshevik, Anti-Capitalist Partisans of the Ukraine
: Nestor Makhno was the leader of a libertarian peasant and worker army and insurrection in the Ukraine which successfully fought Ukrainian nationalists, the Whites, the Bolsheviks and the bourgeoisie and put anarchism into practice in the years following the Russian Revolution. (From: Intro to Struggle Against the State.)
• "The free man, on the other hand, has thrown away the trammels of the past together with its lies and brutality. He has buried the rotten corpse of slavery and the notion that the past is better. Man has already partially liberated himself from the fog of lies and brutality, which enslaved him from the day of his birth, from the worship of the bayonet, money, legality, and hypocritical science." (From: "The Anarchist Revolution," by Nestor Makhno.)
• "The first of May is the symbol of a new era in the life and struggle of the toilers, an era that each year offers the toilers fresh, increasingly tough and decisive battles against the bourgeoisie, for the freedom and independence wrested from them, for their social ideal." (From: "The First of May," by Nestor Makhno, First Publis....)
• "'Soviet' power is a power no better and no worse than any other. Currently, it is every bit as wobbly and absurd as any State power in general." (From: "'Soviet' Power -- Its Present and Its Future," Bo....)
Summons to the 4th Extraordinary Congress
(Telegram No.416)
To all district, cantonal,
communal and village executive committees in the governments of Ekaterinoslav,
Tauride and neighboring regions;
To all units of the First Insurgent Division of the Ukraine, known as the Father
Makhno Division;
To all Red Army troops stationed in the same areas.
To one and all.
At its sitting on May 30, the executive committee of the military revolutionary council, after scrutiny of the impact upon the front of the onslaught of White gangs, and consideration of the overall political and economic situation of soviet power, came to the conclusion that only the toiling masses themselves, and not individuals or parties, can devise a solution to this. Which is why the executive committee of the Gulyai-Polye regional military revolutionary committee has decided to summon an extra-ordinary congress in Gulyai-Polye on June 15.
Electoral procedure:
Notes:
Agenda:
Signed: The Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council
Dated: Gulyai-Polye, May 31, 1919.
(Source: Daniel Guérin, No Gods, No Masters.)
From : NestorMakhno.info
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