"The method of achieving" Mikhail Bakunin. This is a short summary, published in the book
Anarchist Ideology, published by
Longseller , published in 2004. A small class of how to conduct things in a system libertarian. A document that helped me to shape my ideological thinking and that Bakunin left, as I thought, as the largest in the history of anarchism. Enjoy.
METHOD OF PROCUREMENT To escape their miserable fate, the town has three paths: two imaginary and one real. The first two are the tavern and the church. The third is social revolution.
Salvation is possible only through social revolution, destroying all the institutions of inequality and providing social and economic equality.
Revolutions are not made by individuals and never even by secret societies. Occur in a way by themselves, causes the force of things, the stream of events and facts. Already prepared long before in the dark depths of consciousness of the masses, then suddenly burst, following in many cases apparently causes sensitive. We understand
revolution triggering what is now called evil passions and the destruction of everything in the same language is called "public opinion."
The stupidity of men makes necessary, often, bloody revolutions, however, they are always a bad, bad huge and a great misfortune, not only out of respect for the victims but also as refers to the purity and perfection of the order in which names are verified.
No wonder that the people in the early stages of their rebellion, kill many oppressors and plunderers. This misfortune, which otherwise has little effect as damage caused by a storm, perhaps not be avoided. But these moral facts are natural or even useful. The butcher policies have not ever killed the matches have always proved impotent, especially in front of the privileged classes, since violence is directed not against both men, as against the position to create certain privileged institutions, and especially the state and property Private. So, if you make a revolution that reaches down to the foundations, it is necessary to attack the system itself, things, destroy property and the state, which need not be exposed to the inevitable reaction that resulted in society and always cause the killing of men. But thus is entitled to proceed with the men humanely, without danger to the revolution, to be inexorable with things and the system itself, and destroy everything, and in the first place, ownership and the inevitable consecuancia itself, ie the state. Herein lies the secret of the revolution.
revolution as the force of facts presented to us today of a necessary, not a national but international. That is, universal. View the impressive unity of all the vested interests and all reactionary forces in Europe, given the formidable means available to their organization wise, given the deep gulf can be seen everywhere these days between the bourgeoisie and workers no revolution can count on success if not immediately transferred special limits of a village and extends to all other peoples. But the revolution can not ever pass the limits of a country and become general, if not carried in its own bowels the fundamentals of this generality, that is, if not a socialist, if not destroy the state and provides for freedom through equality and justice. Nothing can unite, encourage and give encouragement to the only effective force of the century, workers, rather than the complete liberation of work and the destruction of existing institutions that support property inheritance and capital.
Therefore, a political revolution and a national revolution can not win if you do not become the social and political revolution in national universal revolution, with its fundamental social and destructive nature of the state.
The destruction of the State and institutions produce the natural and necessary following effects: state bankruptcy, the state would no longer enforce private debts, which payment will be charged in the future to the good faith of the debtor paid the taxes will not be charged any contribution, directly or indirectly, there will be no army, courts, public officials, police and clergy, the justice shall cease and be officially called an end to all legal. As a result, will lose its value, making autos with them the title, the provisions of last will, the deed of sale, the donation, procedural documents, in a word, the whole cluster papers relating to private law relations. Everywhere and in all relationships, the revolutionary events take the place of law created and guaranteed by the State expropriation of all productive capital and working tools for the benefit of workers' associations, which employees collective production, expropriation of all property of the Church and the State and precious metals that are under private ownership, using all for the benefit of the community formed by the federation of workers' associations. For the expropriated by the community are reserved, the same property subject of expropriation, the absolutely necessary for life, in addition, be allowed to acquire more, then, through their work, community organization through the joining of the slums, as well as its organ, the Council of the revolutionary community, the the whole neighborhood, every street and every neighborhood will send one or two officials and appointed representatives in a special way, with a binding mandate. The community council may make arrangements for the different branches of the revolutionary administration, agreements executed by the means at its disposal; statement made by the rebellious capital, organized community that after self-destruction the authoritarian state and tutoring, waived the right, or rather usurped the power to govern the provinces and imposed on them with arrogance, called on all provinces, municipalities and associations to emulate the example set by the capital and therefore, are organized at all revolutionary, and then sent to a particular place for holding assembly, responsible representatives who are appointed by the imperative, and in this way constitute the federation of associations, municipalities and provinces and organized insurgent force able to defeat revolutionary reaction.
revolutionary agitators should be sent to all provinces and municipalities, notably the peasants, which can not be aroused by scientific principles and not by the orders of a dictatorship either, but can only be made by the same revolutionary, ie, the immediate effects of the complete cessation of official political activity in all municipalities.
rebels countries will gather for the common defense, universal revolution will inevitably triumph over the limits abolished and the ruins of the states previously existed.
Prepare, organize and accelerate the revolution must be always the work of the people. We only need to pay for the new era of "midwifery service" to accelerate the birth of the revolution. Therefore, we must first spread among the masses, ideas that apply to his instincts.
What keeps rushing through the mass of workers saving idea? Ignorance of these and, in particular, religious prejudices, which, thanks to the efforts of the ruling classes, still hiding of the workers' thinking and feeling healthy.
should be pursued as an end to make the worker become fully conscious of what you want in cause the idea that corresponds to your instincts. No sooner has come to put the thought of the working masses to the height of his instinct will be determined immediately that mass and strength will be irresistible.
is necessary that we form, not the army of the revolution (as the army can not ever be more than the people), but a kind of revolutionary general staff. This should consist of men dedicated, active and good conditions, above all, love the people without ambition or vanity, and facilitate agreement between the revolutionary idea and the popular instincts. Not required an extraordinary number of such people. For the international organization in Europe with a hundred revolutionary enough serious and firmly attached. In two or three hundred revolutionaries are sufficient to organize a wider area.
And that's it, I hope they have liked.
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