Internationalizing anarchy

International anarchic brotherhood

Description

Forming a society through violent revolutionary acts in which the economic organization would be controlled and owned by labour and the social unit would be the commune, linked in a loose federation. There would be no religion or state or authority.

Implementation

The International Brotherhood was founded in Naples in 1868 by Bakunin. It opposed religion, the state and all authority except, in self-contradiction, the authority of the principle of anarchic brotherhood and communal controls. It gave rise to a popular anarchist movement in southern Italy.

Claim

Institutions like the state apparatus and ownership necessarily inhibit unrestricted individual freedom to produce creatively and relate with integrity to one's fellows. No amount of compromise or adaptation of these institutions can finally allow a spontaneous society. They must first be removed.