Any Revolutionary Agitation Exacts Enormous Sacrifices, Not

But What Right Had I To These Highest Joys, When All Around Me Was Nothing But Misery And Struggle For A Moldy Bit Of Bread; When Whatsoever I Should Spend To Enable Me To Live In That World Of Higher Emotions Must Needs Be Taken From The Very Mouths Of Those Who Grew The Wheat And Had Not Bread Enough For Their Children?

Anarchism (from The Gr. , And , Contrary To Authority), The Name Given To A Principle Or Theory Of Life And Conduct Under Which Society Is Conceived Without Government Harmony In Such A Society Being Obtained, Not By Submission To Law, Or By Obedience To Any Authority, But By Free Agreements Concluded Between The Various Groups, Territorial And Professional, Freely Constituted For The Sake Of Production And Consumption, As Also For The Satisfaction Of The Infinite Variety Of Needs And Aspirations Of A Civilized Being.

Idlers Do Not Make History: They Suffer It!

No Evolution Is Accomplished In Nature Without Revolution. Periods Of Very Slow Changes Are Succeeded By Periods Of Violent Changes. Revolutions Are As Necessary For Evolution As The Slow Changes Which Prepare Them And Succeed Them.

A Different Conception Of Society, Very Different From That Which Now Prevails, Is In Process Of Formation. Under The Name Of Anarchy, A New Interpretation Of The Past And Present Life Of Society Arises, Giving At The Same Time A Forecast As Regards Its Future, Both Conceived In The Same Spirit As The Above-mentioned Interpretation In Natural Sciences. Anarchy, Therefore, Appears As A Constituent Part Of The New Philosophy, And That Is Why Anarchists Come In Contact, On So Many Points, With The Greatest Thinkers And Poets Of The Present Day.