Cage and Malatesta on revolution

 
Cage cites this in Anarchy, vii: "The revolution is the creation of new living institutions, new groupings, new social relationships; it is the destruction of privileges and monopolies; it is the new spirit of justice, of brotherhood, of freedom which must renew the whole of social life and raise the moral level and material conditions of the masses by calling on them to provide, through direct and conscious action, for their own futures. Revolution is the organization of all public services by those who work in them in their own interest as well the public's; revolution is the destruction of all coercive ties; it is the autonomy of groups, of communes, of regions; revolution is the free federation brought about by a desire for brotherhood, by individual and collective interests, by the needs of production and defense ; revolution is the constitution of innumerable free groupings based on ideas , wishes and tastes of all kinds that exist among the people; revolution is the forming and disbanding of thousands of representative, district, communal, regional, national bodies which, without having any legislative power , serve to make known and coordinate the desires and interests of people near and far and which act through information, advice, and example."
 
it is most likely a quote from Mario Malatesta, Pensiero e Volonta, 1924)

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