Estudios sobre el Anarquismo — Obras de R. Mella — III

Collectivism Gone are the days when socialist sentimentality expected everything from the mother country and demanded everything of her. Gone are the days when the revolution was just a feeling, and declaimed comically against individualism face to face with the supreme power of the state or of society, its client. Gone are the days when socialism and revolution had no philosophy but that of the heart, no principle of right and justice but that of universal love. All these concepts, all these ideas are only among us as a remnant of what was never to be, as a residue pointing […]

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Los que imperan A medida, que adquiere el burguesismo su pleno desenvolvimiento, se acrecienta el imperio de los mediocres. En todos los órdenes de cosas triunfan las medias tintas, lo indefinido, lo anodino. En el de las ideas, las mayores probabilidades de éxito corresponden a los que carecen de ellas. En el de los negocios y el trabajo a los que, ignorándolo todo, parecen saber todo. El fenómeno es fácilmente explicable. La burguesía se ha dado buenas trazas para que todas las actividades y capacidades sociales concurran a la caza de la peseta. Ha sentado […]

[These articles present a very challenging vision of the development of a revolutionary anarchism. They continue Mella’s arguments for an anarchism “without adjectives,” but also connect that notion to the idea of an “anarchist synthesis,” long before Voline presented his account of anarchist development and the need for synthesis that emerges from the very nature of anarchism itself. The translation is perhaps a little rough around the edges, but I think the ideas are clear enough.] THE BANKRUPTCY OF BELIEFS To my brother J. Prat: Faith has had its moment; it has also had its noisy bankruptcy. There is nothing […]