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THE FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE
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that, of course, was exactly what happened, as we know,
to those who followed the vicious round of logic
from
which Bakounin could not extricate himself. Their
struggle for an organized existence was brief, and at the
end of the seventies it was entirely over.
Naturally, the complete failure of all their projects did
not improve their temper, and they lost no opportunity
to assail the Marxists. The Jura Bulletin of December
10, 1876, translated an article entitled Poco a Poco, written
by Andrea Costa, who labeled the "pacific" socialists
"apostles of conciliation and ambiguity." They wish,
said Costa, to march slowly on the road of progress.
"Otherwise, indeed, what would become of them and
their newspapers For them the field of fruitful study
of in-
and of profound observations on the phenomena
dustrial life would be closed. For the journalists the
means of earning money would have likewise disappeared.
. . .
Finding the satisfaction of their own aspirations
in the present state of misery, they end by becoming,
often without wishing it, profoundly egotistic and bad
. . . While calling themselves socialists, they are
more dangerous than the declared enemies of the popular
cause." (11) About this time a new journal appeared
at Florence under the name of I'Anarchia and
announced the following program: "We are not armchair
(Katheder) socialists. We will speak a simple
language in order that the proletariat may understand
once for all what road it must follow in order to arrive
at its complete emancipation. UAnarchia will fight without
truce not only the exploiting bourgeoisie, but also
the Hew charlatans of socialism,
for the latter are the
most dangerous enemies of the working class." (12)
The following year Kropotkin wrote two articles in
the Bulletin, July 22 and 29, which vigorously attacked