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The Paris Commune: Errico Malatesta
Writing of the Paris Commune in 1900, Errico Malatesta sought to disarm the myth of the Commune as a revolution – it was neither a socialist nor an anarchist revolution – and bring to the fore what in fact it … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Peter Kropotkin
The revolution of 1871 was above all a popular one. It was made by the people themselves, it sprang spontaneously from the midst of the mass, and it was among the great masses of the people that it found its … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Mikhail Bakunin
I am a supporter of the Paris Commune, which for all the bloodletting it suffered at the hands of monarchical and clerical reaction, has nonetheless grown more enduring and more powerful in the hearts and minds of Europe’s proletariat. I … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Louise Michel
Anarchy is not a new idea; writers long before Saint-Just believed that a person who makes himself a leader commits a crime. Louise Michel It is not possible to read Louise Michel’s memoires without being swept away by the passion … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (III)
On 1 March, 1921, the Kronstadt Soviet rose in revolt against the regime of the Russian “Communist” Party. The Civil War was effectively over, with the last of the White armies in European Russia defeated in November, 1920. The remaining … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (II)
From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … Recovering the anarchism of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion Alexander Herbert The anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for movements … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion
From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … “Seventeen dreadful days”: Emma Goldman on the Kronstadt Rebellion On March 1, 1921, a citizen’s assembly in Kronstadt approved the Petropavlovsk Resolution listing 15 demands to the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. This date marks the … Continue reading
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Leo Tolstoy remembered against the pandemic
But actually history is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. […] In world history only those peoples that form states can come to our notice. G.W.F. Hegel, General Introduction to the Philosophy … Continue reading
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Remembering a rebel: Peter Kropotkin
Educated men — “civilized,” as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or jailers. But, frankly, do you need them as much as you have been told … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Voltairine de Cleyre
The Paris Commune of 1871 was not a revolution of the many against the tyranny of state and capital, but an uprising of a minority that confusedly took control of Paris, then left the foundations of power in place, only … Continue reading →