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Anarchism in Italy

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1. The trick succeeded; the working classes got up a demonstration; the middle class National Guards declared for the decree of their minister; they were launched upon the "Anarchists," fell like tigers on the unarmed and unresisting workpeople, and massacred a great number of them on the 23rd of August. Thus the unity and strength of the revolutionary force was broken; the class-struggle between bourgeois and…

   Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution

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2. Equally vain was the attempt to keep the peace by separating the leaders of the disturbances. They were banished by a kind of ostracism; they departed in ostentatious meekness, Corso Donato to plot at Rome, Vieri de' Cerchi to return immediately to Florence. Anarchy had got too fast a hold on the city, and it required a stronger hand than that of the pope, or the signory of the republic, to keep it down.

   R. W. Church, Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

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3. This organisation has been well described as a state within a state, and it seems as if the part it played in the Florentine politics of this period were not yet fully known. This much seems sure, that the members of the Society were mostly Guelf nobles; that its power, derived from the administration of vast wealth to a political end, was so great that the Captain of the _Parte Guelfa_…

   Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

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Philosophers who discussed Anarchism in Italy

• Camillo Berneri

Related ideas

• Fascism
• Max Stirner
• Florence
• Anarchism
• Luigi Galleani
• Italy
• Individualist anarchism
• Trade union
• Anarchist communism
• Left-wing politics
• Spanish Civil War
• Argentina
• Benito Mussolini
• BBC
• Bologna
• Futurism
• Russia
• Rome
• Illegalism
• Pamphlet
• Syndicalism
• Spanish language
• Socialism
• World War II

Place in the tradition

Part of Anarchism.

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