Frases de Rudolf Rocker

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“El anarquismo es una teoría política que aboga por la creación de la anarquía, una sociedad basada en la máxima de -sin soberanos-. Para llegar a ello, (en común con todos los socialistas) los anarquistas mantienen que la propiedad privada de la tierra, el capital, y la maquinaria ha tenido su día; que esta condenada a desaparecer: y que todos los requisitos de producción deben de, y se convertirán en la propiedad común de la sociedad, y serán gestionados en común por los productores de la riqueza. Y mantienen que la organización política ideal de la sociedad es un estado de cosas donde las funciones del gobierno se reducen al mínimo… y que la meta final de la sociedad es la reducción de las funciones del gobierno a la nada -es decir, una sociedad sin gobierno, la anarquía.”

“Las libertades, al ser producidas socialmente, no existen porque hayan sido establecidas legalmente en un papel, sino solamente cuando se hayan convertido en un hábito congénito de un pueblo, y cuando cualquier atentado a impedirlas choque con la resistencia violenta de la población. Uno gana el respeto de los demás cuando uno sabe defender su dignidad de ser humano. Esto es verdad no solamente en la vida privada; ha sido asimismo siempre igual en la vida política.”

“(el anarquismo es) "la confluencia de las dos grandes corrientes que durante y desde la Revolución Francesa han encontrado expresión muy característica en la vida intelectual de Europa: socialismo y liberalismo."”

“For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.”

“This Caesarean madness stops at no barrier. Without compunction it rides roughshod over those achievements of the past which have all too often had to be purchased with the heart's blood of the people. It is always ready to smother with brutal violence the last rights and the last liberties which might interfere with its plans for holding all social activities within the rigid forms set by its will. This is the great danger which threatens us today and which immediately confronts us. The success or failure of monopolistic capitalistic power plans will determine the structure of the social life of the near future.”

“Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.”

“Participation in parliamentary politics has affected the Socialist labour movement like an insidious poison. It destroyed the belief in the necessity of constructive Socialist activity and, worst of all, the impulse to self-help, by inoculating people with the ruinous delusion that salvation always comes from above.
Thus, in place of the creative Socialism of the old International, there developed a sort of substitute product which has nothing in common with real Socialism but the name. Socialism steadily lost its character of a cultural ideal, which was to prepare the peoples for the dissolution of capitalist society, and, therefore, could not let itself be halted by the artificial frontiers of the national states. In the minds of the leaders of this new phase of the Socialist movement the interests of the national state were blended more and more with the alleged aims of their party, until at last they became unable to distinguish any definite boundaries between them. So inevitably the labour movement was gradually incorporated in the equipment of the national state and restored to this equilibrium which it had actually lost before.”

“I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.”

“Ideas do not make a movement; they are themselves merely the product of concrete situations, the intellectual precipitate of particular conditions of life. Movements arise only from the immediate and practical necessities of social life and are never the result of purely abstract ideas. But they acquire their irresistible force and their inner certainty of victory only when they are vitalised by a great idea, which gives them life and intellectual content.”

“To maintain this state of things we make all our achievements in science and technology serve organised mass murder; we educate our youth into uniformed killers, deliver the people to the soulless tyranny of a bureaucracy, put men from the cradle to the grave under police supervision, erect everywhere jails and penitentiaries, and fill every land with whole armies of informers and spies. Should not such "order," from whose infected womb are born eternally brutal power, injustice, lies, crime and moral rottennesslike poisonous germs of destructive plagues gradually convince even conservative minds that it is order too dearly bought?”

“Because of his social position there are left no limits to the power lust of the modern capitalist. He can interfere with inconsiderate egoism in the lives of his fellowmen and play the part of Providence for others. Only when we take into consideration this passionate urge for political power over their own people as well as over foreign nations are we able really to understand the character of the typical representatives of modern capitalism. It is just this trait which makes them so dangerous to the social structure of the future.”