Word: anarchisme
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Bolshevism is one thing and Anarchism is another. Last week Walter Duranty, No. 1 contemporary reporter on Bolshevism, had left Moscow to report in Barcelona upon Anarchism-the most interesting principle of Government to arise amid the civil war in Spain.
Anarchism, as non-technically defined by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is "the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government, harmony in such a society being obtained not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free...
Under Anarchism there can be no Dictator such as Stalin, no President such as Roosevelt, in short no Bigwig. Hence Walter Duranty soon discovered and reported that all the Barcelona Anarchists he could find and interview "refused to be called leaders." Nevertheless, to Mr. Duranty's friendly eyes, the...
Two Anarchists outstanding in fact if not in title in Barcelona are Buenaventura Durruti and Juan Garcia Oliver, both newly skyrocketed to fame from the looms of Barcelona textile plants. These smooth-shaven, intensely modern young men sufficiently dispose of the Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying...
Getting down from Anarchist theory to Anarchist practice, the larger factories and industrial plants of Barcelona had in fact last week resumed production. They were running under councils of workmen and it remained to be seen whether these could continue to obtain raw materials, pay wages and effect profitable sales...