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We make no secret that the following article is freely adapted from one

on Anarchist Organisation, written by Luigi Fabbri in 1907. We feel that
his main arguments for organisation are still relevant. ---- Without
organisation, anarchist communism  is as inconceivable as fire without
fuel. And we propagate this idea not only for the reasons that we will
state, but because we are equally persuaded that modern minds must be
impregnated with its spirit, and especially the minds of the anarchist
communists. Organisation for common goals with people of other parties
and other ideas is useful, but in order to form an anarchist
consciousness, to consider only those who are already anarchist
communist, nothing will do but the organisation of the anarchist
communists themselves, who must endeavour to be as libertarian as
possible. And the development of a new anti-authoritarian consciousness
among us - we for whom anarchist communism is often limited to a merely
doctrinaire conviction - consists in this effort to make our
organisations genuinely libertarian.

I do not know if we who favour it shall really succeed in building this
organisation that we wish and overcoming the existing spirit of
reluctance toward anything requiring long, patient work. But we want to
begin this long, patient work in order not to neglect the powerful means
of propaganda that is the attempt and the example. It may be that,
despite all of our reasons, many things prevent the emergence of real,
durable anarchist organisations, insofar as the anti-organisationalists
do not cease to block our efforts.

It may be that one must still continue this depressing labour of
Sisyphus, building things up in one place while others destroy it
elsewhere, as has been the case among us for a few years. I do not know
how long it may remain the case that our organisations appear here and
there to impel our propaganda, meeting a pressing need, whereas we have
a sporadic character. Those organisations which, because they have to be
created from nothing, lack the continuity of existence and action, fall
more frequently into these specific errors in their youth ...

Why does this matter? Above all, because of the mere fact that present
and past organisations had a short existence due to mistakes made, which
are avoided only through experience gained by practice and not merely
from concepts learned in pamphlets and newspapers.

We think that even most beautiful and perfect organisation is destined
for death if its members, as erudite as they may be in theory, remain
inert. The good of the organisation consists in the fact that, all
things being equal, it is preferable that people who have decided on
action be organised rather than disorganised. It is natural that an
isolated individual who acts is worth more than a thousand inept and
disorganised people.

Whether the propaganda needed to make the anarchist communist
organisation we believe to be necessary emerge even briefly succeeds or
not does not matter, up to a certain point. It will displease us not to
succeed because we will not be able to harvest all the fruits which we
hope for; but we will have at least propagandised for a concept that is
inseparable from the idea of anarchist communism, we will have sown the
seeds that will germinate one day or another. Propaganda for the
organisation of anarchist communists will impose itself through the
necessity of things; and it will be the merit of this propaganda if the
organisation becomes our own, and not the damaged goods which our
adversaries would have bequeathed us.

The ridicule that greets our attempts thus falls on deaf ears. We
already know that, as long as bourgeois society survives, our attempts
will not succeed or will turn out imperfect; but this conviction does
not make us give up "propaganda by the deed."

In the end, what is the revolutionary struggle, if not an innumerable
series of attempts, of which only one, the last one, succeeds - which
would not have succeeded if there had not been the preceding failures?
In the same way, in terms of organisation, we seek to marshal all our
forces in order to succeed; each defeat will bring us closer to victory,
but each time we look for ways to make a better attempt with a less
imperfect result. It will serve to shape consciousnesses a thousand
times better than mere doctrinal preaching.

In addition, those who declare themselves enemies of organisation are
such by habit, because they feel incapable of libertarian solidarity
and, at base, do not know how to escape from this dilemma: to command or
to be commanded. They have no "libertarian" consciousness and thus they
theoretically do not see any other guarantee for individual freedom than
isolation, the lack of any pact and any freely accepted bond. In
practice, it is they who wish to direct the movement; and at the first
attempt of others to resist their influence, at the first sign of
independence from those who persist in thinking and acting in their own
way, you hear them hurl excommunications, cry inconsistency and treason,
and affirm that those who do not say and do as they do are no
anarchists. Thus always did the priests of all times and all religions.
One who is in good faith protests more against the form than against the
substance.

They do not want an organisation, but they speak of accord, agreement,
free contract and association! We shall not deal with such questions of
terminology, and we shall limit ourselves to recalling, once and for
all, that organisation means neither authority, nor government, nor
humiliation, but only the harmonious association of the elements of the
social body. As we want all people to be one day harmoniously
associated, we advocate today in the struggle for the preparation of
such a future, the harmonious association of anarchist communists.
Organisation is a means to reach the end, and a means most in harmony
with the sociological aims of anarchist communism.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2025/01/08/anarchist-communist-organisation/
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