An Anarchist Programme

by Errico Malatesta

Genres: Politics

ebook

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

Errico Malatesta (December 14, 1853 – July 22, 1932) was an Italian anarchist. He spent much of his life exiled from Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of Mikhail Bakunin. He was an enormously popular figure in his time. According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, "Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100,000, fans to show up whenever [he] arrived in town." (Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

I still don't buy into the idea of simply going from the state to no state, without a transition period. That being said, Malatesta marries his anarchist tendencies with material conditions in a way that resonated with me. He does a great job of laying out what needs to be done to bring about the world that he wants.

[Carolina · Rating 3 out of 5]

"[…] and we must make every effort to get them to understand
that however much or little they may demand should be obtained by their own efforts and that
they should despise and detest whoever is part of, or aspires to, government."