Another comrade contributes the following remarks, treating the same subject.
Communist Anarchism implies a change in the mental attitude of men towards things as well as towards one another, a change which will necessarily bring with it a change of outward conditions. It implies the disappearance of the idea of ownership.
Property as it exists at present is a claim to the absolute ownership of things put forward by an individual of an association and acknowledged by society. Lately we have seen this claim disputed with regard to land. When Lady Matheson says of her estate in the Highlands shall I not do what I will with mine own? there is a general and growing feeling that the claim of any individual to hold land in such a fashion ... (From: AnarchyArchives.)
London, July 30, 1919
Dearest Fabbri,[1]
(...) It seems to me that we are in perfect agreement on the matters with
which you are currently so preoccupied, to wit, the “dictatorship of the
proletariat.”
By my reckoning, on this score the opinion of anarchists cannot be called
into question, and in fact, well before the Bolshevik revolution, it never was
queried by anyone. Anarchy means no government, and thus, all the more
emphatically, no dictatorship, meaning an absolute government, uncontrolled
and without constitutional restraints. But whenever the Bolshevik revolution
broke out, it appears that our friends may have confused what constitutes a
revolution against an existing government with what ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Those who care about the remains of the ancient art of our country may well be
somewhat anxious about the scheme which is before the public for the building of a
memorial chapel at Westminster to hold the monuments of distinguished men in the
future, since it is now admitted on all hands that there is no more room for them
in the Abbey church. As representing the Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings, it is not my business to criticize the various proposals, except from
one point of view, that is: as to how they may affect the existing ancient
buildings. I beg you to allow me a word or two on this point, while there is yet
time to say anything concerning the scheme. What I ha... (From: Marxists.org.)
The Newcastle Daily Chronicle: February 20, 1985, p4.
Reprinted in Small Communal Experiments and Why They Fail
Jura Books
Editor's Preface
Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was one of the greatest anarchist theoreticians of
his time. Although he admired the directly democratic and non-authoritarian
practices of the traditional peasant village commune, he was never an advocate
of small and isolated communal experimentalism. Many people, upon reading his
works, have been inspired to found such communities, both in his own time as
well as the hippies of the 1960s (a period when Kropotkin's major works were
republished and influential). Kropotkin did not consider such ventures were
likely to be successful or useful ... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
Proposed Roads
To Freedom
By
Bertrand Russell
INTRODUCTION
THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better
ordering of human society than the destructive and
cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed
is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato,
whose ``Republic'' set the model for the Utopias of
subsequent philosophers. Whoever contemplates the
world in the light of an ideal--whether what he seeks
be intellect, or art, or love, or simple happiness, or
all together--must feel a great sorrow in the evils
that men needlessly allow to continue, and--if he be
a man of force and vital energy--an urgent desire to
lead men to the realization of the good which inspires
his creative vision. It is this desire... (From: Gutenberg.org.)
Is it to be another slaughter of innocent working men like the one which took place in Chicago twenty years ago, at the behest of the capitalistic class, who wished to put men out of the way whom they regarded as dangerous to their reign of robbery?
The conspiracy entered into by the Mine Owners’ Association of the states of Colorado and Idaho, acting through their tools—the governors of the above-named states—in kidnapping Charles H. Moyer, William D. Haywood and George Pettibone, and spiriting them out of the state of Colorado when the shadows of night had fallen, when no one might witness the conspiracy save the armed conspirators, savors so much of deeds of “dark ages”, long, long gone by, that one i... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
There exists between men a tendency or attraction that pushes them to group and act for their greatest interests and the most complete scope of their liberty, collectively and en masse.
From that tendency in the group results, for the human mass, a new and incalculable power, which can be considered as the proper and unique force of Society, commonly known as the Sovereignty of the People.
That force is manifested in all the labors that demand an energy out of proportion with the means of the individual; in the large workshops and factories, in the armies, but especially in the political organization of Government.
The importance of that force is such that we can affirm boldly, without fear of being refuted,... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Preface
This is not the first time we find ourselves faced with a similar dilemma: how transcend the limitation of the means? Reach out beyond the constriction of the roles? Encounter those who have begun their individual insurrection but find their path obstructed by a pile of blunt instruments? Those who have decided to venture into the abyss and have become exigent, want to invent their own methods, draw them forth from the conditions they are constrained to live in against their will, now, as the bosses’ calendar indicates the arrival of the third millennium. Those who want to dance with life in more than fleeting encounters, in the adventure of discovery’ that illuminates destruction in all its possibilities.
... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Published: in Contemporary Issues (New York) No 52, Spring 1966. Transcription: Adam Buick HTML-markup: Jonas Holmgren
The Orwellian principles of newspeak, which include the
interchangeability of words to enable them to express the opposite of what they
appear to be, dominate today's political vocabulary. Just as peace stands for
war and wars are fought to maintain peace, so many other terms have come to
designate their opposites. It is then not surprising to encounter a book which
declares that the opposite of crisis, namely prosperity, is itself in crisis.
[Prosperity in Crisis by Joseph M. Gillman. Marzani & Munsel.
New York, 1965. $5.00].
Gillman's new book develops the thesis "that the capitalist
economies experience ... (From: Marxists.org.)
Speech by Alexandra Kollontai to the third all-Russian conference of heads of the Regional Women’s Departments, 1921.
Prostitution and ways of fighting it
Source: Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai, Allison & Busby, 1977; Translated: by Alix Holt.
Comrades, the question of prostitution is a difficult and thorny subject that has received too little attention in Soviet Russia. This sinister legacy of our bourgeois capitalist past continues to poison the atmosphere of the workers’ republic and affects the physical and moral health of the working people of Soviet Russia. It is true that in the three years of the revolution the nature of prostitution has, under the pressure of the changing economic and social condition... (From: Marxists.org.)
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