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“Qui dit « État » nécessairement dit « guerre.»”

Pierre Kropotkine livre Paroles d’un révolté

Paroles d’un révolté, 1885

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“Dans la pratique de l’entraide, qui remonte jusqu’aux plus lointains débuts de l’évolution, nous trouvons ainsi la source positive et certaine de nos conceptions éthiques; et nous pouvons affirmer que pour le progrès moral de l’homme, le grand facteur fut l’entraide, et non pas la lutte. Et de nos jours encore, c’est dans une plus large extension de l’entraide que nous voyons la meilleure garantie d’une plus haute évolution de notre espèce.”

Pierre Kropotkine livre L'Entraide, un facteur de l'évolution

L'Entraide, un facteur de l'évolution,1902

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Pierre Kropotkine: Citations en anglais

“Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.”

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Peter Kropotkin

Here Kropotkin seems to be refering to the French philosopher Charles Fourier, and not the French scientist Joseph Fourier.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

“ANARCHISM (from the Gr. ἅν, and άρχη, contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government — harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being. In a society developed on these lines, the voluntary associations which already now begin to cover all the fields of human activity would take a still greater extension so as to substitute themselves for the state in all its functions. They would represent an interwoven network, composed of an infinite variety of groups and federations of all sizes and degrees, local, regional, national and international temporary or more or less permanent — for all possible purposes: production, consumption and exchange, communications, sanitary arrangements, education, mutual protection, defence of the territory, and so on; and, on the other side, for the satisfaction of an ever-increasing number of scientific, artistic, literary and sociable needs. Moreover, such a society would represent nothing immutable. On the contrary — as is seen in organic life at large — harmony would (it is contended) result from an ever-changing adjustment and readjustment of equilibrium between the multitudes of forces and influences, and this adjustment would be the easier to obtain as none of the forces would enjoy a special protection from the state.”

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Peter Kropotkin

Kropotkin's entry on "Anarchism" in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910) http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/britanniaanarchy.html

“The State is abdicating and appealing in its holy functions to private individuals. Everywhere free organization trespasses on its domain. And yet, the facts we have quoted let us catch only a glimpse of what free agreement has in store for us in the future, when there will be no more State.”

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