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If we are unable to overthrow capitalism, we shall have to demand for our-
selves and for all who want it, the right of free access to the necessary means
of production to maintain an independent existence.
Advise when we have suggestions to offer; teach if we know more than others;set the example for a life based on free agreement between men; defend even
with force if necessary and possible, our autonomy against any government
provocation but command, govern or rule never!
In this way we shall not achieve anarchy, which cannot be imposed against the
will of the people, but at least we shall be preparing the way for it. We do not
have to wait indefinitely for the state to wither away or for our rulers to be-
come part of the people and to give up their power over us if we can talk them
out of their position.
Errico Malatesta (December 14, 1853 - July
22, 1932) was an anarchist with an unshak-
able belief, which he shared with his friend
Peter Kropotkin, that the anarchist revolution
would occur soon. He spent a large part of
his life in exile from his homeland of Italy
and altogether spent more than ten years in
prison. He wrote and edited a number of radi-cal newspapers and was a friend of Mikhail
Bakunin. Malatesta was a committed revolu-
tionary: he believed that the anarchist revolu-
tion was coming soon, and that violence
would be a necessary part of it since the state
rested ultimately on violent coercion.
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