In nature the law of inertia dominates, and even more so in the human world, which is misonéique, i.e., has a horror of the new. In politics, every violent effort against the established order, against the old, is punishable for it wounds the majority’s opinions and sentiments. Even if it constitutes a necessity for an oppressed minority, judicially it is an anti-social fact and consequently a crime, often a useless crime, for it awakens a misonéistique reaction. Continue reading Anarchy and its Heroes→
Max Stirner (1806-1856) was the philosopher of conscious egoism. His book Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (published in English in 1907 as The Ego and His Own) is the fundamental work of that philosophy and the philosophical basis of individualist anarchism. The German poet and anarchist writer John Henry Mackay (1864-1933) carefully researched Stirner’s life and published his biography in 1897, with a third, definitive edition in 1914. Hubert Kennedy’s translation is the first in English. Continue reading Max Stirner: His Life and His Work by John Henry Mackay→
Sorprende sapere che questo articolo è stato scritto nel 1897. Probabilmente di Malatesta, uscì anonimo sul numero 2 dell’Agitazione, il 21 marzo del 1897. Sembra scritto oggi contro il programma elettorale della sinistra legalitaria, ad esempio di Ingroia. Invece è stato scritto 115 anni fa! Contro il programma elettorale del Partito Socialista, dal quale storicamente provengo tutte le correnti della sinistra, anche quelle più dure dei comunisti. Continue reading Errico Malatesta e il programma elettorale della sinistra legalitaria→
La polémica, entre los libertarios italianos Errico Malatesta y Saverio Merlino, que a continuación publicamos, se desarrolló en 1897 y tuvo una enorme resonancia en territorio italiano e incluso en el seno del movimiento anarquista y socialista europeo. Continue reading Elecciones y Anarquismo→
Organization which is, after all, only the practice of cooperation and solidarity, is a natural and necessary condition of social life; it is an inescapable fact which forces itself on everybody, as much on human society in general as on any group of people who are working towards a common objective. Since humanity neither wishes to, nor can, live in isolation it is inevitable that those people who have neither the means, nor a sufficiently developed social conscience to permit them to associate freely with those of a like mind and with common interests, are subjected to the organization by others, generally constituted in a class or as a ruling group, with the aim of exploiting the labor of others for their personal advantage. And the agelong oppression of the masses by a small privileged group has always been the result of the inability of the oppressed to agree among themselves to organize with others for production, for enjoyment and for the possible needs of defense against whoever might wish to exploit and oppress them. Anarchism exists to remedy this state of affairs … Continue reading Anarchism and Organization→
