Graham R (Ed.) - Anarchism - A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Volume One - From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939)

200 / ANARCHISM
CONSIDERING: THAT THE GROWTH of science tends more and more to reduce men's
exertions in the production of what is required in order to meet their needs; that the
very same prolific output has led to workers' being dismissed from workshop, mine,
factory and field, leaving them stranded, making life harder and harder fo r them, because
ofthis very expansion in the numbers of unproductive wage-slaves; that fo r his
upkeep every man has need of a number of utterly indispensable items and thus must
dedicate a given amount of time to production thereof, as the most elementary justice
proclaims; that this society carries within itselfthe seeds of its destruction in the
perennial imbalance between the needs created by progress per se and the wherewithal
for the meeting of those needs, an imbalance that triggers the ongoing rebellions
that we are witnessing in the fo rm of strikes; that the discovery of a new
instrument for the creation of wealth and the honing of that instrument has plunged
thousands of households into poverty, when logic tells us that increased ease of prodllction
should be matched by a general betterment of people's lives; that this paradox
is symptomatic of our present flawed social constitution; that this flawed
constitution lies at the root of internecine wars, outrages and degeneracy, making a
mockery of the comprehensive notion of humanity we have received from the most
modern thinkers, operating on the basis of observation and inductive scientific reasoning
with regard to social phenomena; that this economic change should also be
mirrored in every institution; that history is evolving towards freedom of the individual;
that this is crucial it social treedom is to be realized; that such freedom is not lost
through combining fo rces with other producers, but is, rather, magnified by the intensity
and scale it lends to the potential of the individual; that man is soci;!ble and
thus that the freedom of one is not bounded by the freedom of his neighbour, as the
bourgeois would have it, but, rather, finds its complement in the freedom of his
neighbour; that codified , tax laws are no match for the scientific laws actually experienced
by peoples and managed and framed by the people itselfin its ongoing striving
fo r improvement; come the economic transformation which will do away with the
class antagonisms that currently make man a predator upon his fellow-man, and establish
a population of free producers; finally, the serf and the seigneur, the aristocrat
and the plebeian, the bourgeois and the proletarian, the master and the slave,
whose differences have stained history with blood, may at last embrace under the
single designation of brothers.
The Third Congress ofthe Workers' Federation of the Uruguayan Region (FORU)
declares: That all its efforts should be geared towards bringing about the complete
emancipation of the proletariat, by establishing sociedades de resistencia, federations