House of Paine

nice profile of anarchists

"The anarchist delegates, 
with whom I held many discussions,
 had a healthy revulsion from ‘official truths’
 and the trappings of power,
 and a passionate interest in actual life;

 but........

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"as the adherents 
of an essentially emotional 
approach to theory, 
who were ignorant of political economy 
and had never faced 
the problem of power, 

they found it practically impossible
 to achieve any theoretical understanding 
of what was going on.

 They were excellent comrades,
 more or less at the stage 
of the romantic arguments
 for the ‘universal revolution’ 
that the libertarian artisans 
had managed to frame between 1848 and 1860
 before the growth of modern industry 
and its proletariat"

                       victor serge