Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

Unsorted writings of Nestor Makhno, compiled by @friedegger from the archives (https://t.co/vqRYFV82Z1). Joined November 2018

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

“Since I participated in the disarming of many Cossacks retreating from the German front at the end of December 1917 and the beginning of 1918, I am well informed on the ‘revolutionary courage’ of the Red Army and on its leaders in particular.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

he becomes a revolutionary anarchist, the only individual capable of thirsting after freedom, completion and perfection for himself and for the human race, as he tramples underfoot the slavery and social idiocy which has, historically, been embodied by violence—the State.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

Their fight back echoed throughout an enslaved Russia which stood ready to back their just and heroic fight...

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

The peasants honoured my request by nominating me in four sotnias in each of which I was elected unanimously. Thus the Executive Committee of the Peasants' Union was elected.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

They cannot reconcile their goals with the goals of Pan-Bolshevism, which thrusts itself so savagely, by ruble and bayonet, into the lives of the toilers in the USSR, deliberately ignoring their rights and turning them into compliant slaves

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

Over all those years of hypocrisy, it has failed to subordinate the aims of the Russian Revolution to its own ends peaceably.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

I was quite upset. Nevertheless, this did not prevent me, some time later, from becoming a member of the Education Society which subsidized this particular school.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

In it he immediately sees that his former life was nothing but loathsome slavery and that this framework of slavery has conspired to stifle all his innate good qualities.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

I apologized for sitting in his chair and asked him to leave me alone.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

If they do not desist, disarm the police,the army and other organizations of the five's defense.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

There was also a four-piece artillery battery, the gunners and defense unit of which were all Jews, commander included.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

In reality, wherever human life is to be found, anarchism is alive.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

No, it need not be so! Revolt, oppressed brother! Rise up against all State power!

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

And although they are aware that these contradictions are totally irreconcilable with their professional ideas, they nevertheless uphold them in order to forestall the putting into practice of Anarchist Communism.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

Trotsky was then promising his Party that 'it was better that the Ukraine be surrendered to Denikin in its entirety than the possibility of the Makhnovshschina's expanding be allowed to arise'

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

These results, for the labouring peasantry, will logically turn out as follows.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

It was very quickly spotted the Red Guards failed to withstand the pressures from the organized counter-revolution for the simple reason that, most of the time, they operated without any overall operational guide-lines.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

No, you are not right. And because I am not in agreement with your confutation, using arguments that are too facile, I believe I am entitled to ask you:

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

The nature of man is anarchist: it kicks against anything tending to make it a prisoner. As I see it, this, man's natural essence, is well expressed by the scientific term anarchism.

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Nestor Makhno @randommakhno

a year ago

It incited them to join in the struggle everywhere; but the absence of an organization, capable of marshalling its resources against the revolution's enemies, left it powerless to assume any organizational role.