Fairy Duster HWIM 04 025

2024-02-28T00:00:00Z

Fairy Duster "I repeat here: as Anarchists, we cannot and we do not desire to employ violence, except in the defence of ourselves and others against oppression. But we claim this right of defence—entire, real, and efficacious. That is, we wish to be able to go behind the material instrument which wounds us, and to attack the hand which wields the instrument, and the head which directs it. And we wish to choose our own hour and field of battle, so as to attack the enemy under conditions as favourable as possible: whether it be when he is actually provoking and attacking us, or at times when he slumbers, and relaxes his hand, counting on popular submission. For as a fact, the bourgeoisie is in a permanent state of war against the proletariat, since it never for one moment ceases to exploit the latter, and grind it down" (p. 226). Malatesta, Errico. "Anarchy and Violence." 1894. The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader. Davide Turcato (ed.), AK Press, 2014. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849351553