When We Have But The Will To

The Mutual-aid Tendency In Man Has So Remote An Origin, And Is So Deeply Interwoven With All The Past Evolution Of The Human Race, That Is Has Been Maintained By Mankind Up To The Present Time, Notwithstanding All Vicissitudes Of History.

The Two Great Movements Of Our Century -- Towards Liberty Of The Individual And Social Co-operation Of The Whole Community -- Are Summed Up In Anarchist-communism.

The Education We All Receive From The State, At School And After, Has So Warped Our Minds That The Very Notion Of Freedom Ends Up By Being Lost, And Disguised In Servitude. It Is A Sad Sight To See Those Who Believe Themselves To Be Revolutionaries Unleashing Their Hatred On The Anarchist Just Because His Views On Freedom Go Beyond Their Petty And Narrow Concepts Of Freedom Learned In The State School.

It Is Only By The Abolition Of The State, By The Conquest Of Perfect Liberty By The Individual, By Free Agreement, Association, And Absolute Free Federation That We Can Reach Communism — The Possession In Common Of Our Social Inheritance, And The Production In Common Of All Riches.

When We Ask For The Abolition Of The State And Its Organs We Are Always Told That We Dream Of A Society Composed Of Men Better Than They Are In Reality. But No; A Thousand Times, No. All We Ask Is That Men Should Not Be Made Worse Than They Are, By Such Institutions!