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

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ploiters and exploited .. .lfI extend this to thinking about the entire social system as a
"class struggle," then all that is required is that my class should dictate to the other
class, in which case I too shall have emerged the victor.
"Social struggle," as we understand it, is not just setting a course fo r revolution
and extinguishing the existence of the bourgeoisie; it is also, since we hold that the
social also means the sociable, the elimination of all imposition, especially political
imposition, by one man upon another; we see humanity as having fO llght fo r countless
centuries past to achieve a genuinely free society; we plunge into these raging
waters and, let there be no mistake about this, we accept all the consequences and,
chiefly, the Revolution. Social struggle, therefore, is something humane and
all-embracing; the aim is not merely to change society, but that society should be
hospitable fo r men, and every source of oppression or tyranny banished, which is to
say, a genuinely free society ...
The term "social struggle," as we employ it, is that all-encompassing. And we
want this borne in mind lest it be confused with class struggle carried through to Revolution.
We bring into the Revolution a social struggle as well.. .Class struggle carried
through to Revolution has as its aim a "proletarian dictatorship." Social struggle
carried through to Revolution has as its object the freedom of Humanity and the ennobling
of all of its members.
94. Lopez Arango and Abad de Santi/kin: Anarchism in the Labour Movement
(1925)
Emilio LOpez Arango (1894-1929) was one of the editors of the leading Argentine anarchist paper,
La Proiesta, and a member of the anarcho-syndicalist bakers' union, which Malatesta had
helped fo und in 1887. He was originally from Spain, as was Diego Abad de Santillan
(1897-1983). Abad de Santillan joined LOpez Arango and others first in publishing the anarchist
papers, La Campana, and then La Protesta. Abad de Santillan later contributed articles from Europe
where he became involved with the revived anti-authoritarian International Workers Association
(IWA), an international federation of anarcho-syndicalist organizations (Selection 114), in
1922. In 1925, LOpez Arango and Abad de Santillan wrote EI Anarquismo en el movimiento
obrero {Anarchism in the Labour Movementl (Barcelona: Cosmos, 1925), in which they emphasized
the anarchist component of anarcho-syndicalism, being equally critical of pure syndicalism
and Marxist-Leninism. As with Antilli, despite their strong disagreements over the question of
violence, they reject a narrowly working class conception of anarchism, as Malatesta had done before
them (Selection 60). The translation is by Paul Sharkey.