"The best defense for the new society lies in it asserting its revolutionary character because this quickly creates conditions in which no attempt at a restoration of the bourgeoisie will find a solid base."
"It is obvious that in order to act you need a body of coherent ideas. Contradictions and hesitations prevent ideas getting through."
"The leaders of the "official" anarchist movement, still preoccupied with hiding the weaknesses and the inconsistencies, blurring the responsibility, avoiding the fundamental theoretical problems, avoid discussion or are satisfied with a few reluctant confessions and regrets."
"There is nothing proletarian -- or revolutionary about immoralist cynicism."
"The [specifically anarchist] organization is not a union or contractual understanding between individuals bringing their own artificial ideological convictions. It arises and develops as an organic, natural way because it corresponds to a real need."
"The act of revolution brings an immediate transformation in the sense that the foundations of society are radically changed, but a progressive transformation in the sense that communism is a constant development."
"The word anarchist seems to me too restrictive and I don't use it unless it is joined by the word communist."
"Libertarian communism is as yet only an approximation, and not a dogma of absolute truth."
"We do not fetishize organization, but in order to elaborate and defend this struggle, organization is a necessity."
"Private capitalism, condemned by history, only survives today thanks to the arms race on the one hand, and the comparative failure of state communism on the other."
"As far as the problem of the state goes, the lesson of the Russian revolution is written on the wall for all to see."
"Was traditional anarchism, idealistic and prone to splits, not destined to fail as soon as it found itself confronted by an implacable social struggle, for which it was not in the least way prepared?"
