“If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.” IfsNeedsBookStatesWould BeAmericaUnitedUnited StatesWrittenRevolutionViolentIf I CouldThrownJailUnited States Of AmericaAnarchistCookbook Author:William Powell
“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.” MeanEndsStatesWholeMomentsWould BePoliticalEconomicRevolutionVictoryMassOrganizationWorkersDefeatParisAnarchyCapitalistOrganismsAdversariesAnarchismAnarchistSlaughterUpside DownProletariatCommunesThings Upside Down Author:Friedrich Engels
“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.” PeopleThinkingOrderViolenceConditionsRevolutionAuthorityProtectionAshamedAnarchyMistakenAnarchistAssertionNegationMental Power Book:Social Evils and Their Remedy Source: Social Evils and Their Remedy
“Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .” WorldIdeasDreamSeemsGovernmentJesusSocialThis WorldRevolutionAuthorityAbuseNo IdeaAnarchismAnarchistHumiliatedSocial Revolution Author:Ernest Renan
“Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.” PhilosophyBeliefViolenceRevolutionContraryThinkerAnarchistContrary To Popular Belief Book:Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939 Source: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939
“We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".” PeopleWantDifferentMatterFactsDreamRevolutionTasksAliensAdministrationDictatorshipSocialistMarxismAnarchistMatter Of FactAccountantsSubordinationIncomprehension Author:Vladimir Lenin