A Guide to Anarchy | Errico Malatesta
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- Especially in popular media, “anarchy” has been portrayed as chaos, destruction, and disorder. This is far from the meaning and philosophy espoused by anarchism. To better understand this philosophy, we'll take a look at Errico Malatesta’s seminal pamphlet “Anarchy”, first published in 1891. Here, each chapter is dissected and discussed, and meant to aid readers in their understanding of Malatesta’s incredible introduction.
Right after this video, I will be Live on CZcams with @Anark where we will discuss on anarchism, anarchist theory, and maybe even how he became an anarchist.
Anarchy by Malatesta:
theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
0:00 Introduction
2:04 Chapter 1
6:48 Chapter 2
13:01 Chapter 3
29:24 Chapter 4
36:15 Chapter 5
41:07 Chapter 6
53:37 Chapter 7
59:04 Chapter 8 & 9
List of Authors Mentioned:
Étienne de La Boétie- Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon- On Property
Jean-Jacques Rousseau- Declaration of The Rights of Man
Karl Marx- Das Kapital
Peter Kropotkin- Anarchism: Its philosophy and ideal
Peter Kropotkin- Mutual Aid
Peter Kropotkin- Conquest of Bread
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My teacher In highschool got me into anarchy, I wrote an essay and he suggested I look into anarchy because he thought I would agree with it. I did
It's funny cuz the earliest firsthand experience I have of anarchy was my high school ceramics teacher saying that he was an anarchist. In my mind, this made him cool cuz it seemed very rebellious for a 60+ yr old Italian American in Connecticut, but there was a certain disconnect cuz I didn't yet know what anarchy truly meant. It did lead to open up more to the idea tho & not think of anarchy has mayhem, chaos & lawlessness
Fuck man I'm evolving from a libertarian to an anarchist
when you have love, anarchism is the only political philosophy that makes any sense
Well, that sounds tyrannical.
@joaolfcamacho if anything it sounds absolutist, but I feel like tyranny requires hierarchical power being wielded over others. What I believe the person above is trying to say is that when you truly see the humanity in your fellow humans, the systems of power in place are plainly wrong/harmful. By their nature, they are easily exploitable by groups or individuals, whether small or large, to use their power for their own benefit & at the expense of others. Seeing these sorts of things it becomes evident that the better way of life would be for communities, societies & general groups of people to govern themselves & not have their lives in the hands of people who more often do not are inconsiderate of or unmoved by the plight of their people. And by "better way of life", I mean a way of life that is conducive & beneficial for all people within it to the maximum ability, regardless of class, sex, gender, sexuality, etc. & where people have the freedom of self-determination. One that does not do intentional to harm people or the environment simply by nature of its existence.
Note: this may not be exactly what the original commenter meant in their comment, but at the very least this my opinion on the matter
Yesterday I watched videos on Daoism and Shintoism now I’m here watching Anarchism and I love it. What a ride I’ve been on…
Laozi was probably one of the first anarchists. The Tao Te Ching leans heavily on that political theory thousands of years before the term anarchism was widespread.
One simple question opened up my mind to Anarchism: If the cops can police themselves, why can't we police ourselves?
You really opened a huge barrel of worms with this loaded question 😂
Who is going to judge the judge?
@@Dr.Tinkerpawdoctor the doctor?
@@thonytso The immune system
@@Dr.Tinkerpaw GOD
Never thought you are an anarchist but I am glad that you are with the platflorm that you have
i mean guy did make a analysis of that Paul Signac painting, as well as always highlighting the class struggle subtext of various other paintings
@@martinzachary6632 Because I am not a frequent visitor of this channel but I do remember his video on Dali
This video, which I first watched a month or so after it posted, is the first to expose me to what anarchy is in a way that gave meaning to the word, rather than the vague pejorative term that people around me had used it as. It has opened a door for me and helped me to develop a better understanding of the world and my values as I found so many resources to learn more when I knew what to look for.
Thank You!
What an incredible comment ! Thank you so much!!! I couldn’t ask for more from the reaction to these videos. I’m both profoundly touched and proud.
Thank YOU!
I remember in school my teacher was trying to show the value of authority instead of anarchy, and just said to the class "you can do anything, you're free. The rules don't apply for the next few minutes." Students started talking, laughing, and then some people started throwing things. At the time, it felt like proof anarchy can't work. Since then, I've learned that it's hardly an accurate comparison to the actual working of democracy without hierarchy, which is more of how I think anarchy is. After all, kids in a room goofing off isn't the same as constructing a just world together
notice how they were bound to come back. if they were allowed to leave the class forever, they'd do something more useful than listening to 90% boring nonsense.
authority creates strawman moments of freedom to prevent us from embracing it because it's always partial. you get productive worker for 8 hours and call it authority, and exhausted worker for 6 hours lying at his bed and call it anarchy.
Sounds like nobody got hurt or traumatized due to social customs and everyone shared a pleasant moment together.
Humans have grown past anarchy. A country with a goverment isn't an really a hierachy. All cases are but those are a result of human greed. Anarchy builds itself on the notion, that we do not need law enforcers nor govermental jobs etc etc. But things like healthcare or car insurgence etc etc. are positive things which are from the goverment. We humans have way to many flaws for none to enforce laws or write them. Of course humans write these laws but it is important that multiple people judge these laws. Anarchy is a thing of the past which is a theoritical ideology. We wouldn't have reached the moon with Anarchy and would be stuck on the same rock until humans go extinct.
Children SHOULD be subjected to authority, that's the problem.
@@saladcat8305 ...you think people didn't have healthcare -likw stuff before government?
We are reaching levels of basedness previously thought impossible
I had no idea The Canvas was so based
You don't know what based means
@@Lord_Humungusyou don't.
@@Lord_Humungusyou don’t know what anything means. How do you feel now huh??? I told you you don’t know what anything means so I can feel superior 😤.
@@Eeeemomo go cry to your wife's boyfriend about it
young anarchist here (13!!,) and im gonna learn more about anarchism today :D yay!!!
Hello fellow Anarchist! 🏴
@@joshuahjoseph6738 hello!!!
Good on you, young man 👍
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Watch and learn, young Padawan
Average age of an anarchist
Your time and care is much appreciated. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. It is so well laid out and explained that i feel like it can reach a lot of people. Anarchy needs to be properly understood if we are ever to have true freedom and solidarity of human needs.
On a side note, i think a distinction should be made between private property and personal property. Anarchists want to abolish private property, not personal property. No one wants to share a community toothbrush or underwear. You can own your personal belongings. It is the ownership and enclosure or the means of production that we have an issue with, i.e. private property.
The Acehnese (an autonomous region in Indonesia) inheritance law somehow reflects this idea. Their community believes there are 2 types of properties: family-owned and personally-owned. Individuals have the right work the land in the manner the family agrees upon, in return for nominal rent to the family's trust fund (they call it as waqaf). The profits from such work is the exclusive right of that individual.
This is a very interesting model from the unlikeliest place. Because the only thing you'll hear from mainstream media is the sharia legal system they implement there..
p/s: I heard the Taliban is considering such model to implement on the vast swathes of opium farms they had torched few months ago. After all, food supply is their primary security concern right now
Would you use violence and force when confiscating someones private property?
Thanks for this comment
@@afribeanner not sure who you're talking to, but if you reread the above comments you'll see that no one wants to take anyone else's property. My question to you is do governments and corporations use violence, force, or coercion when they want your property, water, or mineral rights?
@@WoodRabbitTaoist To answer your question I would say 100 percent Yes. Government is violence both democratic and dictatorship. Let me ask again will you use violence and force to confiscate private property from the individual? You say you don't "want" to but History shows something very different.
Extremely hyped to see you cover anarchism and Malatesta! Keep em coming my guy
If we vote someone into power then we have someone who is only an authority on getting votes. If we coup someone into power then we have someone who is only an authority on insurrection. If we choose someone random for power we have someone who is only an authority on being in the right place at the right time. Give me sustenance and shelter and I will self govern and help others do the same. I have the most insight on the subject of helping myself and nobody can convince me otherwise. I recognize that I project a version of myself onto strangers and so I seek to witness kind and loving people by embodying those traits myself. A person who only sees evil strangers is the least deserving of power.
I'm only a portion through this vid but I wanted to thank you for making this, its really well put and has made this topic approachable
I would probably say I’m not an anarchist, but this video was pretty insightful
I'm at 9:55 I am a socialist/communist.
The issue I see with anarchism is. If we take down the concept of government we would have a world ruled by corporations and very rich people, nothing would have changed. How can you anarchists claim to keep us free, from a anarchist with more power/resources for example?
EDIT: I understand. Great video. You sway my opinion towards anarchism quite a bit.
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I finally found the channel I didnt know I needed. Merci mon ami!
Back in my punk days I used to tag "My liberty depends on your freedom".
I'm no anarchist through I do have alot of overlap(I'm a libertarian communist), but I've wanted to learn more about anarchism. Loved the video
So you still believe in slavery. Libertarian asks for less government abuse and communism is mob rule based on "needs". Oh, and you don' t believe in ownership of property or the produce of your labor. You support slavery.
It's dreadful how communists wildly overlook anarchist theory
I’m not sure you understand the words that you’re speaking, because libertarian communism/socialism is def anarchist, keyword being libertarian
Nicely done young man, articulate and honest assessment of the subject matter, I do hope many many humans watch it and pass it on. Far to many 'tools' in this world don't even realise they are their own worst enemy. Viva la revolution!!!👊👊
My greatest concern with anarchisim is how to teach ethics, especially to children, because in the very likely case that people are divided about that, the ones that teach in a way that encourages domination, individualism or debate instead of cooperation, happiness and dialogue will, as they have almost always done, overpower the others.
Although maybe in a world of relative abundance this wouldn't happen idk
I get being against domination, but what's wrong with individualism?
Posted before watching, I hope...?
@@etinarcadiaego7424 I meant extreme egoism
English isn't my first language
@@Scriven42 no what worries me is that anti anarchist values would overpower any other ones in the long term
I mean
If you are an anarchist you probably don't want to force everyone to be an anarchist, (I don't,) but some people won't be anarchists.
Of course in an anarchist society people would probably lean towards anarchist values but I think we can't be sure yet
@@juanitopantuflapantufla2605 people would teach anarchist values, as anarchist values would necessarily be embedded in the pedagogy. If we managed to get so far as to have an anarchist society, the most easy way for people to get what they want is by working within the structure of society. So sheerly out of self interest, it would be the norm to teach egalitarian
I was wondering why I liked all your other videos so much. Now I have my answer.
what the person who does nuanced and informed deconstruction of art is an anarchist, who would have known
IT ALWAYS FREAKS ME OUT when one of my most respected CZcamsrs turns out to be a [fellow] Anarchist / Marxist / Communist type when they do art videos or woodworking videos...
Its like I secretly _know_ and thats why I follow them
@@piccalillipit9211 well, I had a hunch, but yeah, you are right, i was quite happy to find it out too
@@piccalillipit9211do not debase the name of anarchists putting them alongside communists and marxists. We are not the same.
@@sbef NO way more tetchy and sensitive LOL
Anarchism is for me the only way of possible the best philosophy of human life.
Just discovered Anark's channel, so this came as a pleasant surprise.
The removal of violence from human relations is the main plank of Anarchism.
~ Errico Malatesta
7:40 that's why I consider myself an Anarchist bc I always believed in democracy like they told us to buy I believed in true democracy - the govt being an extension of the people's will. And as I got older I realized that then there is no point in a state, just live.
It's such a great way for people to eat the pill. They don't realize that 'their' representatives don't represent anything about them. That the people this government is for were the landed aristocracy, those that have enough power to 'deserve' an audience to the ruling body. Anarchy must live if the people are to be free. Fuck the st4te.
You made a GREAT video! 🎉
Thank you I found this video useful.
Excellent video, thank you for making and sharing this, I really enjoyed it and found it really helpful. I can recommend a book for anyone interested which touches on many of the topics here from an Australian Indigenous perspective: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta. He talks about general concepts of how traditional Aboriginal societies organised themselves (without government) in Australia, how justice was determined by the group and how closely human minds are tied to the natural world around them. As an Anglo Australian I found it hugely illuminating and I can also see many parallels to the anarchist ideas presented here. Again, great video!
At the intersection of art and anarchism I found your channel, and I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Ps after watching ❤
sometimes i wonder why Jacque Fresco never really came across anarchism.... there are so many similarities between anarchist communism and the resource based economy... also i really appreciate errico malatestas eloquent formulations so much - he was so spot on with so many core issues. Also thank you for demystifiying anarchism in an understandalbe but clear manner - i think anarchism like truth needs to be fought for as long as humanity exists.
from one anarchist to another, brilliant video
TIL: Power is like the ring from LOTR, it corrupts even anarchists/wizards
Was not expecting this at all, but it's a very welcome surprise
You should perhaps look further into the etymology of Anarchy because the Greeks used "without ruler" to define a time in which 30 tyrants took over from a much more peaceful system before it.
Amazing, thak you!
Great video!
as king of the anarchists, I approve.
In all seriousness though, I have always been an anarchist I think... it feels that way anyway... but it took until I was almost 30 to discover the actual words to articulate my feelings, and it was through anarchy by Malatesta. Such a joyous thing it was to not feel as though I was alone in my feelings.
recently I read "Seeing like a State" which I must recommend to all comrades, its a great book for someone who's looking for a great book.
I like that sweater. Good topic. Thx.
That was very interesting to listen to. On an economic side, I agree at least on most points - but I can't really wrap my head around the arguments in Chapter 6. I feel like both sides here are utopians and neither will really work 100%. Which is fine, striving for utopia is always better than accepting stagnation.
For you're interested in more economics, try looking into Ostrom's work on the Commons. As well as Stafford Beer's Cybernetics.
😅that is the word my friend the 🔥COMMONS🔥with Individual Freedom ; there is no reason for basics like housing and food to be scarce or expensive🤩
Great work on this. It articulates the Idea in a way i feel can get through to a lot of people. I hope it opens many doors and puts folks on the path to collective liberation. #stopcopcity
You and Andrewism are cool as hell!
Thankyou!
Good to know anarchism is being shared to the world
This is a great discussion of Malatesta’s ideas, his work is a really good introduction to anarchism. Fantastic video!
30:08 OMG yes! This quote is exactly how I feel.
I believe I was always an anarchist but didn’t know it had a name until 2011.
i were super political for 2 years arguing with people over discord and had all the tendencies but I thought anarchists are a bunch of dumb kids lol
I literally managed to develop kinda anarchistic understanding of power before discovering that it's so much more developed by actual anarchists
I became more aware of anarchy because of the Sex Pistols. As a teen of the seventies Prog fan, they were a refreshing slap in the face. However, I understood the word to mean; "without rules", which conflicted with my sensibilities so I didn't look any further. How nice to learn I was wrong.
so so happy you’re an anarchist. much love ♥️♥️
i'm considered by 10000% of people to be a "radical leftist," although i more accurately self-describe using a phrase in spanish translating to: "neither of the right nor the left but from those at the bottom coming for those at the top." a through-and-through abolitionist. i am a community organizer and co-founder of a (inter)national organization with a 3-letter acronym you've probably definitely heard of. as such, i've always respected anarchy but haven't strongly aligned myself with the philosophy based largely on my lack of knowledge on its history. this video is extremely helpful for that and i am grateful.
a probable finite cause of my lack of knowledge on the subject comes from the scarcity of historical Black anarchist literature. as a Black and nobinary person, it is very, very difficult for a group of cishet white intellectual bros to sell me on something. and that's on generational trauma. i know race is touched upon in this video, but nowhere near enough. and not by the right people. we need to talk about the ways that certain leftist circles, no matter how well-intended in philosophy, have miserably failed to meet at the intersection of marginalized people when it comes down to praxis.
i highly recommend you read "afropessimism" by frank b. wilderson.
complete aside: i discovered your channel maybe two days ago and it's all i've watched since. exactly what my soul needs right now.
You may enjoy The Nation on no Map: Black Anarchism and Liberation by William C. Anderson. I found it to be really good. It's understandable why many non-ciswhite people don't associate with the term "anarchism", as most people who identify with the term are white and don't put the theory into action and end up being as racist as the people they're supposed to hate. Labels aren't all that important like you're saying, but maybe you could use elements of the theory to help you in your organizing
very well made, great job!
I love your videos so much man
Two of my favourite creators!
I know im late lol but im here lol
Im not an anarchist im a ML but unlike a lot of others i think understanding anarchists is important anyway ur video is cool
53:34 is the best part, adam smith's invisible hand will manage everything
30:00 what a quote
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I’m an ML but awesome video. Keep up the good work comrade! Love your vids btw
World Peace day June 22nd 🌎, unite in solidarity for each other, Overcoming nonsense with Common sense ❤
Great material
Thanks
Thanks for making this video 🙏🖤
I want this as a podcast 😢
So in an anarchist society for someone to be incriminated that would mean that the other people in their environment believe so, that means communication would be a skill that undeniably reduces your chances of being harmed by your peers if in any situation that could make you seem suspect
What do classic Anarchists think of the theory of people like Rasmus Hastbacka and Swedish Anarcho-Syndicalism?
Havik from Mortal Kombat 1 is all about Anarchy.
I got sidetracked and read the first 3 chapters of anarchy for a few days
Do one on Conquest of bread ❤️🖤
How can a society adopt an anarchist methodology amid imperialist antagonism? If country x wanted to be anarchist, how would they fight against the Western imperialist? Collective trial and error is not a sufficient answer when faced with (re)enslavement.
Hey this is cool comrade. Dunno anything about art but I watch this channel to learn. Didn’t know you’re anarchist bro. 🏴
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I'm a little confused. You claimed it has been suggested that in anarchical society nobody would care about the freedoms of other, and then said "but nothing could be farther from the truth".
But you didnt explain why. You just said "governents are always tools of domination", a statements which is fairly debatable since they facilitate things we would have to emulate in an anarchical society such as healthcare.
You can't just say yeah humans would actually become communally focused because governments are actually not great, it doesnt make sense.
I like a lot of the message of anarchism but that sounded really naive. I want to understand
It's important to recognize that government is only immoral violence and nothing more. It's an utterly unfounded assertion of one group having valid authority over another.
Does it guarantee, or even increase the probability of intelligent and just solutions being enacted? Not in the slightest. In fact, it increases the probability that self-serving, power-mongering misanthropes will hijack society, purposefully creating dysfunction and chaos in order to opportunistically benefit from the manufactured volitility, which is precisely what we have now.
Giving one small group an artificial, insurmountable advantage in physical force over everyone else doesn't make positive outcomes more likely. Asking what people will do instead is the wrong question.
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Anark/Canvas is certainly a surprising crossover, but definitely a welcome one
You would knew, if you watch the livestreams :)
@@federicosavorani6320 Ya got me there 😆
@@Cubehead27 PS, I am so sorry for the butchered English there, I am ashamed of myself lol
@@federicosavorani6320 Not at all! It's your second language, is it? I can only speak one so you're ahead of me anyway lol
Around 28:45 - Did all passengers on the Herald of Free Enterprise act cooperatively that fateful night? (6 March 1987)
Big thanks for this video! ❤🏴
Whoops! My anarchy symbol.
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Once people get past that stage they realize they will have to be productive together also.
Every consistent libertarian should be an anarchist.
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Anarchy is how I sleep at night it's my bedroom right? Government says it's ok to harm for good. It's like you have to like what they like and, you have to listen, and you can't let go. like having those things that keep your eyes open. Liberty and justice loose their meaning.
Thanks for making this video to introduce anarchism to many people.
It is a shame to go down the anarcho communist path though. Communism only really works at a family level before you start to experience the tragedy of the commons, and conflict or starvation.
State communism has lead to outright misery and depravity, where as in capitalist territories even the bottom socio-economic class have had a much better quality of life than is possible in communist territories.
Although this is comparing statist forms of capitalism and communism, the vast difference in outcomes should give pause for considering whether communism has serious issues (whether anarcho or statist politically).
Property rights have been one of the greatest advances for average people. Truly, property rights have to exist to some degree because even with an apple tree held in common, at some point you must labour (pick the apple) and create property (hold the fruit) or how will you eat it? Surely by eating an apple you are claiming property? There is always a point that sharing stops, and whilst that’s up for debate, communism becomes unworkable.
Whereas property rights and free trade encourage collaboration and division of labour. Yes some will have a more valuable subdivision of their labour than others, and accrue wealth. This is human nature, the same way the people have always been more or less gifted at getting what they need (the better spear throwing or faster running caveman accrued more protein from hunting and compounded those gains in other pursuits or in trading excess meat with others).
To expect the gifted individuals to just provide more without the prospect of greater wealth or status, is wishful thinking. It just defies human nature, natural selection.
As anecdotal evidence, look at the plight of the pilgrims in Plymouth. Initially founding a commune and almost died out through the inefficient agriculture that resulted. They then switched to property rights (individual land to farm) and prospered.
It is seriously illogical to discount the benefits of property rights.
Especially with soo much natural evidence of human nature, communism, capitalism, statism and anarchism to discuss.
Why haven't i seen this before
You cannot understand how much I appreciated and needed a video like this one.
I just think you should have made it clearer that what you call anarchy (which is the original idea of anarchy) today is often called anarcho-socialism or anarcho-communism (you even use the black and red flag to symbolize socialism/communism joint with anarchy). The reason being that today there are also anarcho-capitalists, which believe that capitalism is fair and the only problem is the state, they are obviously different from the first kind of anarchist, but they still nontherless call themselves anarchist and believe to be "the true anarchist".
Also I'm lucky for being italian and having the opportunity to read this book in the language it was written
Most anarchists I've seen really don't include ancaps at all in conversations about anarchism. Tbh I mostly just call them ancaps to make clear that they aren't anarchists.
In a free society, how are you going to stop people from freely trading with each other?
@@quatelecapitalism is not free trade.
Is there a distinction in Anarchism of Private vs Personal property? Thanks for the video BTW. I learned a lot, and feel a lot of similar values with Anarchism.
I’m pretty new to anarchist thought but not leftist thought, and I can tell you there’s a pretty sharp distinction. Anarcho-Capitalism isn’t really anarchy because it doesn’t remove hierarchical power-only removes the state as the one who decides personal rights and economic policy. In the states place, you’ll get an absolute dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where capital and land alone determine your power in society. Your employer will now be the only authority over you. If you’re not lucky enough to be landowning or have any capital of your own you are a complete, powerless slave. Private property cannot exist under a system that destroys hierarchical power
Anarchism is not a single philosophy, there are myriad versions of it. There's the collective anarchism (anarcho-communists, etc.) that are completely against private property, and on the other side the proto libertarians/individual anarchists that have no issue with private property. It is sad that over the years anarchism has become synonym of the former, which is an oxymoron because forcefully abolishing private property can only be done by force, with the help of a government. Anarcho communism in other words is antithetical to anarchism. People should be free to associate and do whatever with their stuff without anybody coercing or using force against them. Hope this helps
@@calebdunlap7566anarcho capitalism IS anarchism. Proudhon, the guy to invent the term in the first place, was in favour of private property. Then the movement got infiltrated by the communists and socialists which were much in vogue at the time (Bakunin & co) and now we are fighting over a nonsensical notion that anarchism must mean communism. Anybody that wants to tell me what to do with myself and my things cannot be anarchist, can they?
@@sbef
Proudhon did not support private property.
"The right of property was the origin of evil on the earth, the first link in the long chain of crimes and misfortunes which the human race has endured since its birth. The delusion of prescription is the fatal charm thrown over the intellect, the death sentence breathed into the conscience, to arrest man's progress towards truth, and bolster up the worship of error."
"We shall show by the maxims of political economy and law, that is, by the authorities recognized by property,
1. That labor has no inherent power to appropriate natural wealth.
2. That, if we admit that labor has this power, we are led directly to equality of property, whatever the kind of labor, however scarce the product, or unequal the ability of the laborers.
3. That, in the order of justice, labor destroys property."
"The price is not sufficient: the labor of the workers has created a value; now this value is their property. But they
have neither sold nor exchanged it; and you, capitalist, you have not earned it."
"Hitherto, I have considered property as a power of exclusion; hereafter, I shall examine it as a power of invasion."
"I. Individual possession is the condition of social life; five thousand years of property demonstrate it. Property is the suicide of society. Possession is a right; property is against right. Suppress property while maintaining possession, and, by this simple modification of the principle, you will revolutionize law, government, economy, and institutions; you will drive evil from the face of the earth.
II. All having an equal right of occupancy, possession varies with the number of possessors; property cannot establish itself.
III. The effect of labor being the same for all, property is lost in the common prosperity.
IV. All human labor being the result of collective force, all property becomes, in consequence, collective and unitary. To speak more exactly, labor destroys property.
V. Every capacity for labor being, like every instrument of labor, an accumulated capital, and a collective property, inequality of wages and fortunes (on the ground of inequality of capacities) is, therefore, injustice and robbery.
VI. The necessary conditions of commerce are the liberty of the contracting parties and the equivalence of the products exchanged. Now, value being expressed by the amount of time and outlay which each product costs, and liberty being inviolable, the wages of laborers (like their rights and duties) should be equal.
VII. Products are bought only by products. Now, the condition of all exchange being equivalence of products, profit is impossible and unjust. Observe this elementary principle of economy, and pauperism, luxury, oppression, vice, crime, and hunger will disappear from our midst.
VIII. Men are associated by the physical and mathematical law of production, before they are voluntarily associated by choice. Therefore, equality of conditions is demanded by justice; that is, by strict social law: esteem, friendship, gratitude, admiration, all fall within the domain of equitable or proportional law only.
IX. Free association, liberty whose sole function is to maintain equality in the means of production and equivalence in exchanges is the only possible, the only just, the only true form of society.
X. Politics is the science of liberty. The government of man by man (under whatever name it be disguised) is oppression. Society finds its highest perfection in the union of order with anarchy."
Source:
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph; McKay, Iain, ed. (2011). "Property Is Theft!" _A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology._
@@sbef anarcho-communism is the abolition of all hierarchical power structures, including class and states. What you propose is a stateless society-but not a society without hierarchy. Private property within itself is a tool of oppression because it gives the landlord exclusive rights over the land and all of its production, whether it came from his own two hands or not. But what other choice do you have but to work for the landlord when you’re starving and own no land? At which point you are, by coercion, subjected to the will and power of the landlord unless forceful or violent action is taken. Why are we humans so arrogant to believe that any person has the exclusive ownership of a piece of a whole planet? The old system must be smashed and abolished entirely, by whatever means necessary, so long as those means are in line with the ends. Use of force to overthrow oppression is the exact opposite of authoritarianism, it is an individual seeking freedom from someone or something exercising the use of authoritarian, hierarchical power to oppress and exploit them. And in the old systems place a system that does not rely on a state, class, or any other hierarchical power will thrive
I cannot, unfortunately, join you for discussion later having obligations, but I do hope to listen tomorrow. My copy of Malatesta’s little book arrived this morning.
theres a lot of these types of texts that i wanna read or listen to but dyslexia and suspected add makes it extremly tiering and hard
bro ik u commented this like 5 months ago but I can relate sm. this text was only like 70 pages and I took like a month to understand the whole text
@@laskdjf3880 haha would take alot more then a mounth for me to get through it
Audible Anarchist posts free recordings. From an attention-deficient anarchist.
I asked recently asked my hyper capitalist grandmother what the American dream is. Bro she literally said stateless, classless, moneyless society
The American dream 😂
It just goes to show how little the average person knows about theory. Ty for this video, your making it easier to challenge people’s manufactured consent. Keep doing the good work
Take bread
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There are a lot of great points in this video.
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How do I get in the Discord? Do I need to be a patron?
would love to know what you have to teach but CZcams has blocked me
Are you wearing an aragonese cachirulo?
it seems like he does
Anarchy is inevitable
I’m not a fan of anarchy or art but I love your videos they’re just addictive