Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the ConspiratorsSchaack, Michael J.
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Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators
Has the deed been completed, then the group of action dissolves at
once, without further parley, according to an understanding which must
be had beforehand, leaves the place of action, and scatters in all
directions.
If this theory is acted upon, then the danger of discovery is
extremely small—yea, reduced to almost nothing, and from this point
of view the author ventures to say, thus, and not otherwise, must be
acted, if the advance is to be proper.
It would be an easy matter to furnish the proof, by the different
revolutionary acts in which the history of the immediate past is so
rich, that the executors sinned against the one or the other of the
aforementioned principles, and that in this fact lies the cause of
the discovery, and the loss to us of very important fellow-champions
connected therewith; but we will be brief, and leave that to the
individual reflection of the reader. But one fact is established—that
is this: That all the rules mentioned can be observed without great
difficulty; further, that the blood of our best comrades can be spared
thereby; finally, as a consequence of the last-mentioned, that light
actions can be increased materially, for the complete success of an
action is the best impulse to a new deed, and the things must always
succeed when the rules of wisdom are followed.
A further question which might probably be raised would be this: In
case a special or conditional group must be formed for the purpose
of action, what is the duty, in that case, of the public groups, or
the entire public organization, in view of the aforesaid action? The
answer is very near at hand. In the first place, they have to serve
as a covering—as a shield behind which one of the most effective
weapons of revolution is bared; then these permanent groups are to
be the source from which the necessary pecuniary means are drawn and
fellow-combatants are recruited; finally, the accomplished deeds are
to furnish to permanent groups the material for critical illustration.
These discussions are to wake the spirit of rebellion,—that important
lever of the advancing course of the development of our race,—without
which we would be forever nailed down to the state of development of
a gorilla or an orang-outang. This right spirit is to be inflamed,
the revolutionary instinct is to be roused which still sleeps in the
breast of man, although these monsters, which, by an oversight of
nature, were covered with human skin, are earnestly endeavoring to
cripple the truly noble and elevated form of man by the pressure of
a thousand and again a thousand years—to morally castrate the human
race. Finally, the means and form of conquest are to be found by
untiring search and comparison, which enhance the strength of each
proletarian a thousandfold, and make him the giant Briareus, alone
able to crush the ogres of Capital.
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