Anarchist Beginnings
From “l’Anarchia,” edited by Emilio Covelli (1877)
Extracts from l’Anarchia, edited by Emilio Covelli, 1877: “Humanity is divided into oppressors and oppressed. The first need a state to sanction their oppression, by restraining the liberty of others within certain limits. The others tend to rise up against every government and to freely associate among themselves. “So, on the one hand, the aristocratic or democratic politics and on the other, socialism, the true socialism, revolutionary anarchist socialism. “The oppressed have always attempted to free themselves and join their forces. They have not succeeded because they have always turned against one form of government, and not against authority itself… […]