Quotes about anarchist
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Quotes about anarchist

“This is a great mistake.
We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.”
Anarchism or Socialism (1906)
Context: We are not the kind of people who, when the word "anarchism" is mentioned, turn away contemptuously and say with a supercilious wave of the hand: "Why waste time on that, it's not worth talking about!" We think that such cheap "criticism" is undignified and useless.
Nor are we the kind of people who console themselves with the thought that the Anarchists "have no masses behind them and, therefore, are not so dangerous." It is not who has a larger or smaller "mass" following today, but the essence of the doctrine that matters. If the "doctrine" of the Anarchists expresses the truth, then it goes without saying that it will certainly hew a path for itself and will rally the masses around itself. If, however, it is unsound and built up on a false foundation, it will not last long and will remain suspended in mid-air. But the unsoundness of anarchism must be proved.
Some people believe that Marxism and anarchism are based on the same principles and that the disagreements between them concern only tactics, so that, in the opinion of these people, no distinction whatsoever can be drawn between these two trends.
This is a great mistake.
We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. Accordingly, we also hold that a real struggle must be waged against real enemies.
Source: The Songlines

Source: Proudhon: What Is Property?

1910's, Futurist Speech to the English' (1910)
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/articles/guitaryear.htm

As quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 223

Source: Fragments for an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), p. 5

Order by the commissar for military affairs - on the murder of count Mirbach
How the Revolution Armed (1923)

Introduction, p. 10.
1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918)
“Poets and anarchists are always the first to go.
—Where.
—To the frontline. Wherever it is.”
Yo-Yo Boing! (Spanglish novel, 1998)

“We Marxist communists are profoundly opposed to the anarchist doctrine. This doctrine is erroneous”
Order by the commissar for military affairs - on the murder of count Mirbach
How the Revolution Armed (1923)

" The Majority Disguised as the Resented Minority http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/16118" (31 May 1994)

Declaration of Rights. Compare: "Whatever is, is in its causes just", John Dryden, Œdipus, Act iii. Sc. 1.

Letter to M. K.
The Road to Revolution (2008)

Source: The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), I - Our Oriental Heritage (1935), Ch. III : The Political Elements of Civilization, p. 21
Context: If the average man had had his way there would probably never have been any state. Even today he resents it, classes death with taxes, and yearns for that government which governs least. If he asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. In the simplest societies there is hardly any government. Primitive hunters tend to accept regulation only when they join the hunting pack and prepare for action. The Bushmen usually live in solitary families; the Pygmies of Africa and the simplest natives of Australia admit only temporarily of political organization, and then scatter away to their family groups; the Tasmanians had no chiefs, no laws, no regular government; the Veddahs of Ceylon formed small circles according to family relationship, but had no government; the Kubus of Sumatra "live without men in authority" every family governing itself; the Fuegians are seldom more than twelve together; the Tungus associate sparingly in groups of ten tents or so; the Australian "horde" is seldom larger than sixty souls. In such cases association and cooperation are for special purposes, like hunting; they do not rise to any permanent political order.

"Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence" - interview by Jeffrey Elliot (1980)
Context: My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian. I suppose an anarchist would say, paraphrasing what Marx said about agnostics being "frightened atheists," that libertarians are simply frightened anarchists. Having just stated the case for the opposition, I will go along and agree with them: yes, I am frightened. I'm a libertarian because I don't trust the people as much as anarchists do. I want to see government limited as much as possible; I would like to see it reduced back to where it was in Jefferson's time, or even smaller. But I would not like to see it abolished. I think the average American, if left totally free, would act exactly like Idi Amin. I don't trust the people any more than I trust the government.

"Society Without A State" in The Libertarian Forum (1975) http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1975/1975_01.pdf.
Context: I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Zeit Campus;
Quotes 2010s, 2011
Context: [ZEIT Campus: You often say you are an anarchist. What do you mean by that? ] Chomsky: Students should challenge authorities and join a long anarchist tradition. [ZEIT Campus: “Challenge authorities” – a liberal or a moderate leftist could accept that invitation. ] Chomsky: As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t matter to me. [ZEIT Campus: Who or what must challenge today’s student generation? ] Chomsky: This world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. Students must decide: does something concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out on the work!

"A Word of Explanation" on his work Hind Swaraj (1908) in Young India (January 1921)
1920s

Source: Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus) (1863), Ch. 7.

Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965).

“An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.”
[The Book of Ammon, 1965, Hennacy, 31]

Reaction to the Tsar's invitation (August 1898) to the Hague Conference of 1899, quoted in Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War (London: Pimlico, 2004), pp. 429-430
1890s
"The CIA reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left" (2017)

per Irving Norton Fisher in a speech to the Yale socialists club 1911 http://praxeology.net/WGS-Anarchy.htm.

Individual Liberty (1926), Liberty and Politics
Source: Anarchy after Leftism (1997), Chapter 11: Anarchy after Leftism

Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 8.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War (1937) edited by Nancy Cunard and publisehd by the Left Review
“We have all in some degree become anarchistic.”
Introduction
The Portable Matthew Arnold (Viking Press, 1949)

Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker15.html
Individual Liberty (1926)
“Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.”
A conversation between plumbers.
"A Blockage in the System".
The Acid House (1994)

The Relation of the State to the Invididual (1890)

Individual Liberty (1926), Liberty and Politics

The Relation of the State to the Invididual (1890)

Poetry and Anarchism (1938)
Literary Quotes

Marzio's Crucifix (1887)

“We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”
l'Agitazione (18 June 1897)

Individual Liberty (1926), Anarchism and Crime

An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html

Individual Liberty (1926), Anarchism and Crime

“An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do.”
As quoted in "What Is Anarchy?" By Butler Shaffer, Lewrockwell.com (Jan. 13, 2004)

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Source: Strong democracy: Participatory politics for a new age (2003), p. 5

Letter to his sister (24 September 1938), published in The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys (1996), edited by Anthony Head p. 106
E-mail to LewRockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/003291.html (2004-01-20).

Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Property (1935)

Rand, Ayn (2005). Mayhew, Robert, ed. Ayn Rand Answers, the Best of Her Q&A. New York: New American Library. p. 73. (1976)

Source: Fragments for an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), p. 7

Wacław Sieroszewski, Józef Piłsudski, Piotrków: 1915, p. 19.
Attributed
Source: Polish: "Wszyscy oni są mniej lub więcej zakapturzeni imperialiści, nie wyłączając rewolucjonistów. Żywiołowy centralizm jest cechą tych umysłów, wiecznie tęskniących do absolutu. Nie znoszą rozmaitości, nie umieją godzić sprzeczności – nużą one ich wolę i wyobraźnię do tego stopnia, że nie mogą stopić rozmaitości w jedną całość, odrzucają zupełnie nawet potrzebę świadomych społecznych organizacji. [...]. Niech się dzieje wszystko samo przez się, żywiołowo – to rozwiązanie według nich jest najmądrzejsze, bo najprostsze i najłatwiejsze. Dlatego to pośród nich tak dużo jest anarchistów. Dziwna jednak rzecz, że nie spotkałem wcale wśród Rosjan republikanów!"

Statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted Karel Čapek: Life and Work (2002) by Ivan Klima

Source: Three “Whys” of the Russian Revolution (1995), p. 44
Source: Social Anarchism (1971), p. 6

“Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).”
Sept. 12, 2013, on the Senate floor. [citation needed]

Source: The State — Its Historic Role (1897), IX

Source: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 34

Letter to Philipp Van Patten http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/letters/83_04_18.htm (18 April 1883)

"Shouting Anarchy" (1989).
1990s, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (1993)

"Institutional Economics," 1931

Individual Liberty (1926), Liberty and Politics
The Personality of Jesus (1932)

"Inferior Religions" (1917), cited from Lawrence Rainey (ed.) Modernism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) pp. 208-9.
Notebook entry (1948), published in Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985)

Servants (1918)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

Source: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 3, e-Business and the New Economy, p. 92
Source: Social Anarchism (1971), p. 2

A 1973 Interview with Milton Friedman – Playboy Magazine
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

describing Boccioni
In the 'Preface' of Boccioni's show at Ca' Pesaro, July 1910; as quoted in Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, by Christine Poggi, Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 107
1900's

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)