Peter Kropotkin Quotes About Abolition
-
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.
→ -
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.
→ -
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.
→ -
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!
→
Related Authors
-
Errico Malatesta Writer -
-
Friedrich Engels Author -
Emma Goldman Writer -
Rudolf Rocker Writer -
Ba Jin Writer -
Vladimir Lenin Revolutionary -
Max Stirner Philosopher -
Karl Marx Philosopher -
Charles Darwin Naturalist -
-
-
Alexander Herzen Writer -
Noam Chomsky Linguist -
Murray Bookchin Author -
William Godwin Journalist -
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Author -
Colin Ward Writer -
David Graeber Anthropologist -
Leo Tolstoy Writer