Organizzazione e anarchia [Organization and Anarchy]. Paris: L. Chauvet, [1927?]
Title
Organizzazione e anarchia [Organization and Anarchy]. Paris: L. Chauvet, [1927?]
Description
That the story of the transnational work of a figure like Malatesta was written in Italian, published in New York, and printed in Paris by an Italian printer, Tipografia Sociali, is testimony to the international nature of the anarchist movement.
Malatesta (see also Al caffè) (b. Caserta 1853-1932) was the most important Italian anarchist of this era. Borghi and Galleani were his proteges. A spellbinding orator, Malatesta traveled to and was respected throughout the Italian anarchist world, in Europe, and in North and South America.
He differed from Galleani in at least one important respect: unlike the latter, Malatesta believed that while anarchists could not be syndicalists, they could use syndicalist tactics to achieve their goals, and thus could have a role in the development of the Industrial Workers of the World (see works of Faggi, De Ciampis (Il Proletario), Ebert, Vincent St. John, Giuseppe Cannata, Meledandri, Buttis and others in the Collection).
Nevertheless, Malatesta was a committed revolutionary. He believed that the anarchist revolution was inevitable and that violence would be a necessary part of it since the state rested ultimately on violent coercion. As he wrote in his article "The Revolutionary 'Haste'" (Umanita Nova, number 125, 6 September 1921): "to achieve this end [of everyone being socially conscious], it is necessary to provide all with the means of life and for development, and it is therefore necessary to destroy with violence, since one cannot do otherwise, the violence which denies these means to the workers." However, Malatesta himself denounced the use of terrorism and violent physical force.
Malatesta (see also Al caffè) (b. Caserta 1853-1932) was the most important Italian anarchist of this era. Borghi and Galleani were his proteges. A spellbinding orator, Malatesta traveled to and was respected throughout the Italian anarchist world, in Europe, and in North and South America.
He differed from Galleani in at least one important respect: unlike the latter, Malatesta believed that while anarchists could not be syndicalists, they could use syndicalist tactics to achieve their goals, and thus could have a role in the development of the Industrial Workers of the World (see works of Faggi, De Ciampis (Il Proletario), Ebert, Vincent St. John, Giuseppe Cannata, Meledandri, Buttis and others in the Collection).
Nevertheless, Malatesta was a committed revolutionary. He believed that the anarchist revolution was inevitable and that violence would be a necessary part of it since the state rested ultimately on violent coercion. As he wrote in his article "The Revolutionary 'Haste'" (Umanita Nova, number 125, 6 September 1921): "to achieve this end [of everyone being socially conscious], it is necessary to provide all with the means of life and for development, and it is therefore necessary to destroy with violence, since one cannot do otherwise, the violence which denies these means to the workers." However, Malatesta himself denounced the use of terrorism and violent physical force.
The preface is by Amilcare Cipriani (b. Anzio 1844- d. Paris 1918), who fought with Garibaldi (and later with Garibaldi's son) in many venues. He was elected deputy of the new Italian Chamber of Deputies (and subsequently re-elected eight times) but was unable to claim his seat because he refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the King. In 1891, he was among the delegates to the conference which established the short-lived Socialist Revolutionary Anarchist Party.
Creator
Errico Malatesta
Publisher
L. Chauvet
Date
[1927?]
Format
18 x 13.5cm; 32 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Errico Malatesta, “Organizzazione e anarchia [Organization and Anarchy]. Paris: L. Chauvet, [1927?],” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/208.
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