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Written by Autonomie und Solidarität on 2025-01-19 at 08:55

Remembering Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905

120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire.

"I became definitely an Anarchist when sent to New Caledonia, on a state ship, in order to bring me to repentance for having fought for liberty. I and my companions were kept in cages like lions or tigers during four months. We saw nothing but sky and water, with now and then the white sail of a vessel on the horizon, like a bird’s wing in the sky. This impression and the expanse were overwhelming. We had much time to think on board, and by constantly comparing things, events, and men; by having seen my friends of the Commune, who were honest, at work, and who only knew how to throw their lives into the struggle, so much they feared to act ill;

I came rapidly to the conclusion that honest men in power are incapable, and that dishonest ones are monsters; that it is impossible to ally liberty with power, and that a revolution whose aim is any form of government would be but a delusion if only a few institutions fell, because everything is bound by indestructible chains in the old world, and everything must be uprooted by the foundations for the new world to grow happy and be at liberty under a free sky."

https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/louise-michel-why-i-am-an-anarchist-1896/

https://libcom.org/article/liberty-journal-anarchist-communism

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