Errico MalatestaThinkers

Anarchism is against violence. In fact, the main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme.

Anarchism is the enemy of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority.