"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, raise the moral level
and the material conditions of the masses by calling on them to
provide, through their direct and conscientious 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 as 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 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 to coordinate the desires and
interests of people near and far and which act through information,
advice and example. Revolution is freedom proved in the crucible of
facts—and lasts so long as freedom lasts, that is until others, taking
advantage of the weariness that overtakes the masses, of the inevitable
disappointments that follow exaggerated hopes, of the probable errors
and human faults, succeed in constituting a power, which supported by an
army of conscripts or mercenaries, lays down the law, arrests the
movement at the point it has reached, and then begins the reaction".
