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Guy Aldred

Guy Aldred: Influential British Anarchist

Guy Aldred was born on November 5, 1886, in the United Kingdom. He was a vocal advocate for anarchist and communist ideas, and was known for his contributions as a publisher. He made significant efforts to disseminate anarchist literature and was a staunch anti-war critic.

During his lifetime, Aldred authored several works, most notably 'Bakunin', a biography of the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. His writings and speeches played a significant role in promoting anarchist ideals, making him a key figure in the history of British anarchism. His mission to spread alternative political ideas via printed materials not only influenced local anarchist movements, but it also gave international visibility to the tenets of communist anarchism. Aldred died on October 16, 1963.


Date of Birth: 1886-11-05

Date of Death: 1963-10-16

Country of Birth: United Kingdom

Political Ideas: Communist Anarchism

Quotes Available: 6



Quotes by Guy Aldred

The nature of a species can be changed completely as a result of the modifications resulting from the passage through a series of environments.
Bakunin was unquestionably inferior to Marx as a political economist. His economics are Marxist, and he subscribed enthusiastically to Marx's theory of surplus value and dissection of the capitalist system.
True organisation like true liberty belongs to the future -- and the Socialist Commonwealth, or, as I have termed it elsewhere, the Anarchist Republic.
Socialists, so called, have degraded Marx's declaration of a political class struggle to mean something which it never did and never can mean, namely, parliamentary action.
Man as we know him, in the highest actual stage of development, loves learning, yearns alter truth, and identifies his personal happiness with the realization and maintenance of his ideals.
Out of the class or property social system there cannot emerge a "representation" which signifies an honest attempt to secure just exposition of principles and expressions of antagonistic interests.


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