REVOLUTION

                             by Errico Malatesta

 Revolution  is the creation of new living institutions, new groupings, new social relationships, it is the destruction of privileges & monopolies; it is the new spirit of justice, brotherhood, of freedom which must renew the whole of social life, the moral level & the material conditions of the masses by calling on them to provide, through their direct & conscious action, for their own future;

 Revolution  is the organisation of all public services by those who work in them in their own interest as well as the public's.

 Revolution  is the destruction of all coercive ties; it is the autonomy of groups, of communes, of regions;

 Revolution  is the free federation brought about by a desire for brotherhood, by individual & collective interests, by the needs of production & defence;

 Revolution   is the constitution of innumerable free groupings based on ideas, wishes, & tastes of all kinds that exist among the people;

 Revolution  is the forming & disbanding of thousands of representative, district, communal, regional, national bodies which, without having any legislative power, serve to make known & to coordinate the desires & interests of people near & far & which act through information, advice & example;

 Revolution  is freedom proved in the crucible of facts — & lasts so long as freedom lasts, that is until others, taking advantage of the weariness that overtakes the masses, of the inevitable disappointments & human faults, succeed in constituting a power, which supported by an army of conscripts or mercenaries, lays down the law, arrests the movement at the point it has reached, & then begins reaction.
 

 

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