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"On the other hand we know that most of the so-called intellectuals are,
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by reason of their education.... their class prejudice... tend to want the
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subjugation of the masses to their will."
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"We accept the intellectuals with pleasure and without suspicion when they
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fuse with the working class, when they join the people without the
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pretensions of command.... but with the open mind of someone coming admit
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brothers and sisters to repay them a debt they have contracted in educating
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themselves, which in most cases is at the expense of the children whose work
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has produced their means of labor."
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"Human societies, if they are to be communities of free (people) working
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together for the greatest good of all, and no longer convents or despotisms
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held together by religious superstition or brute force, can not be the
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artificial creation of an individual or of a sect. They must be the
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results of the needs and the competitive or divergent wills of all their
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members who by trial and error find the institutions which at any given
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time are the best possible, and who develop and change them as circumstances
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and wills change.... One may, therefore, prefer communism or individualism or
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collectivism, or any other system, and work by example and propaganda for
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the achievement of one's personal preferences; but one must beware, at the
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risk of certain disaster, of supposing that one's own system is the only
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and infallible one, good for all (people), everywhere and for all times,
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and that its success must be ensured at all costs, by means other than
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those which depend on persuasion, which spring from the evidence of facts....
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What is important and indispensible, the point of departure, is to ensure
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for everybody the means to be free."
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"The police and army are there to keep a brake on the people and assure
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the landowners's tranquility. But if they have guns and cannons, there's
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no reason why we have to fight empty handed. We know how to use guns
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too, and can get hold of them with astuteness and courage. (These and
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other "incendiary materials" are) tools which if in the hands of the govt
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serve to hold the people in slavery, in the hands of the people will
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serve to conquer freedom. The revolution can hardly be achieved with
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holy water and the litany."
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"Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the
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only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious
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part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of
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leaders."
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"The anarchist organisation must, in their constitution and operation, be in
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harmony with the principles of anarchism, that is, they must in no way be
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polluted by the spirit of authoritarianism; they must be able to reconcile
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the free action of individuals with the need and pleasure of co-operation
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and help to develop the awareness and initiative of their members."
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"the individual members can express any opinion or adopt any tactic which
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does not contradict the accepted principles and does not harm the activity
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of other people."
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