Errico Malatesta Quotes


Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.


Citations

Malatesta, Errico. Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas. Edited by Vernon Richards, Freedom Press, 1965, p. 86.

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Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta
  • Born: December 14, 1853
  • Died: July 22, 1932
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  • Profession: Revolutionary, Activist, Writer

Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist and revolutionary socialist. He spent much of his life exiled from Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of Mikhail Bakunin.