Né democratici né dittatoriali: anarchici
Frasi di Errico Malatesta
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Errico Malatesta
Data di nascita: 4. Dicembre 1853
Data di morte: 22. Luglio 1932
Errico Gaetano Maria Pasquale Malatesta è stato un anarchico e scrittore italiano, tra i principali teorici del movimento anarchico.
Passò più di dieci anni della sua vita in carcere e buona parte in esilio all'estero. Collaborò ad un gran numero di testate rivoluzionarie ed è nota la sua amicizia con Michail Bakunin. Assieme a quest'ultimo e a Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, rappresenta uno dei pensatori più importanti della corrente libertaria, da alcuni ritenuto il più importante teorizzatore e rivoluzionario dell'anarchia.Fu fermamente convinto, così come l'amico Pëtr Kropotkin, dell'imminente avvento di una rivoluzione anarchica . Pochi mesi dopo iniziò infatti la Rivoluzione russa, che ebbe il supporto anche degli anarchici, ma terminò con la presa di potere da parte dei bolscevichi. Solamente dopo 19 anni arrivò una vera rivoluzione anarchica, la fallita Rivoluzione spagnola. Malatesta è riconosciuto come il massimo esponente del movimento libertario italiano e del libero pensiero. Wikipedia
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Frasi Errico Malatesta
Né democratici né dittatoriali: anarchici
da Individuo, società, anarchia: la scelta del volontarismo etico, a cura di Nico Berti, e/o, 1998
L'Anarchia
L'Anarchia
Organizzatori e antiorganizzatori
L'Anarchia
da Scritti, Risveglio, 1934, vol. I
Né democratici né dittatoriali: anarchici
Né democratici né dittatoriali: anarchici
1913; citato in L'espresso, 3 agosto 2006, p. 118
Organizzatori e antiorganizzatori
L'Anarchia
Anarchy (1891) http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1891/xx/anarchy.htm
Contesto: Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority.
Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word “anarchy” was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.
Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
Contesto: Theoretically "democracy" means popular government; government by all for everybody by the efforts of all. In a democracy the people must be able to say what they want, to nominate the executors of their wishes, to monitor their performance and remove them when they see fit.
Naturally this presumes that all the individuals that make up a people are able to form an opinion and express it on all the subjects that interest them. It implies that everyone is politically and economically independent and therefore no-one, to live, would be obliged to submit to the will of others. <!--
If classes and individuals exist that are deprived of the means of production and therefore dependent on others with a monopoly over those means, the so-called democratic system can only be a lie, and one which serves to deceive the mass of the people and keep them docile with an outward show of sovereignty, while the rule of the privileged and dominant class is in fact salvaged and consolidated. Such is democracy and such it always has been in a capitalist structure, whatever form it takes, from constitutional monarchy to so-called direct rule.
Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
Contesto: The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority. And the democrats, whether socialists or not, are willing to agree. They add, it is true, that one must respect minority rights; but since it is the majority that decides what these rights are, as a result minorities only have the right to do what the majority wants and allows. The only limit to the will of the majority would be the resistance which the minorities know and can put up. This means that there would always be a social struggle, in which a part of the members, albeit the majority, has the right to impose its own will on the others, yoking the efforts of all to their own ends.
And here I would make an aside to show how, based on reasoning backed by the evidence of past and present events, it is not even true that where there is government, namely authority, that authority resides in the majority and how in reality every "democracy" has been, is and must be nothing short of an "oligarchy" – a government of the few, a dictatorship. But, for the purposes of this article, I prefer to err on the side of the democrats and assume that there can really be a true and sincere majority government.
Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.
Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
Contesto: The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority. And the democrats, whether socialists or not, are willing to agree. They add, it is true, that one must respect minority rights; but since it is the majority that decides what these rights are, as a result minorities only have the right to do what the majority wants and allows. The only limit to the will of the majority would be the resistance which the minorities know and can put up. This means that there would always be a social struggle, in which a part of the members, albeit the majority, has the right to impose its own will on the others, yoking the efforts of all to their own ends.
And here I would make an aside to show how, based on reasoning backed by the evidence of past and present events, it is not even true that where there is government, namely authority, that authority resides in the majority and how in reality every "democracy" has been, is and must be nothing short of an "oligarchy" – a government of the few, a dictatorship. But, for the purposes of this article, I prefer to err on the side of the democrats and assume that there can really be a true and sincere majority government.
Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.
