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In this article, which appeared in Les Temps Nouveaux (6th August 1910 In this article, which appeared in Les Temps Nouveaux (6th August 1910

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In this article, which appeared in Les Temps Nouveaux (6th August 1910 - PPT Presentation

tion rites the ignorance perpetuated by the clergy and the exploitation upheld by the capitalist the famine in the countryside the shootings the mass hangings the rampages of the White Terror ID: 298361

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In this article, which appeared in Les Temps Nouveaux (6th August 1910), Kropotkin stresses the need for local revolts as part of a revolution. He is clear that revolutions are not overnight events but rather a revolutionary process which can take years to blossom from their initial stirrings.I! "#$ R$%&'(")&* )+ $%$, "& -$ tion rites, the ignorance perpetuated by the clergy and the exploitation up-held by the capitalist, the famine in the countryside, the shootings, the mass hangings, the rampages of the White TerrorÑthe politicians have no prob-lems stomaching any of that! We need cast our minds no further back than the White Terror in France during the Bourbon restoration, the Blue Terror in the wake of 1848 and 1871, and the Black Terror in Russia since 1907. 0ey were able to stomach all of that wonderfully well, because there is something they hate much more than all the furies of the reaction: namely, the woollen cap and pike of 1789, the proletarianÕs red 2ag, the sickle strapped by the peasant to the end of a stick as a makeshift pike, or, worse still, the expropriations carried out in orderly and systematic fashion, almost like some religious act, by the Russian peasantsÕ communes in 1904. It is with the intention of imparting their hatred of popular unrest to revolutionaries emerging from the workersÕ ranks that they are now whisper-ing these jesuiticalÑthese treacherousÑwords into their ears: ÒGive a wide berth to mindless disturbances [mouvements inconscient]!Ó 0ey are now try-ing to emasculate [sic] the revolutionary proletarians of the Latin countries 284 0e Tragic Week (or Semana Tr‡gica), taking place between 25th July and 2nd August consciousness [conscience intelligente] of the goal to be achieved, but also a knowledge of the historical, economic, moral and other factors making that goal desirable and attainable? And who has been more insistent than us that the bourgeoisie is always going to have the upper hand until such time as the workers are sure of what they want to obtain from the coming revolution? But precisely because we are well aware of our purpose and know that it cannot be achieved in a single day,Ñwe speak out against jesuitical misuse of the word d inconscient] as applied to insurrections.Precisely because we know that an may well topple and change a government in one day, whereas a revolution, if it is to achieve a tangible outcomeÑa serious, lasting change in the distribution of economic forcesÑtakes three or four years of revolutionary upheavalÑfor that very reason, we say to the workers:0e rather than, as anarchists argued, by direct action and economic self-organisation. It should be noted that in JuneÐJuly 1869, shortly after joining the International Working MenÕs Association, Bakunin wrote a series of articles for the Swiss newspaper LՃgalitŽ on this issue entitled ÒLes endormeursÓ (Ò