#Anarchy and #Violence , Errico #Malatesta
We are Anarchists, because we believe that we can never achieve the combined well-being of all - which is the aim of all our efforts - except through a free understanding among men, and without forcibly imposing the will of any upon any others.
In other parties there are certainly men who are as sincere and as devoted to the interests of the people as the best of us may be. But that which characterizes us #Anarchists and distinguishes us from all others is that we do not believe ourselves in possession of absolute #truth; we do not believe ourselves either infallible, or omniscient, - which is the implicit pretension of all legislators and political candidates whatever; and consequently we do not believe ourselves called for the direction and tutelage of the people.
We are, par excellence, the party of #freedom, the party of free development, the party of social experimentation.
Anarchists! let us save Anarchy! Our doctrine is a doctrine of #love. We cannot, and we ought not to be either avengers, nor dispensers of justice. Our task, our ambition, our ideal is to be deliverers.
Source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy-and-violence
http://www.revoltlib.com/anarchism/anarchy-and-violence/
